A treatise on painting . lijfi: /> /4b. BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. 149 the painting appear larger than the life; the mfafuresreafon take as foilovvs :—A B is the breadth of•« pi^^ ..viithe Ipace taken up by the portrait, ITat?. 2. ^.4.] which is placed at the dillance markedC F, where the cheeks are; and muft: have thewhole length of the line y^Cbehind; now inthis cafe the temples will be feen at-the diflanccOR of the lines A FB F, fo that they will ap-pear narrower than the life, by the two fpacesC O and R D : whence it follows, that the twolines CE and D F\ to become more fh
A treatise on painting . lijfi: /> /4b. BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. 149 the painting appear larger than the life; the mfafuresreafon take as foilovvs :—A B is the breadth of•« pi^^ ..viithe Ipace taken up by the portrait, ITat?. 2. ^.4.] which is placed at the dillance markedC F, where the cheeks are; and muft: have thewhole length of the line y^Cbehind; now inthis cafe the temples will be feen at-the diflanccOR of the lines A FB F, fo that they will ap-pear narrower than the life, by the two fpacesC O and R D : whence it follows, that the twolines CE and D F\ to become more fhort, muftjoin the plan on which the whole height igdefigntd; that is, the lines AF and B F\ wherethe true bignefs is found: fo that the difference,as we have already mentioned, lies in the twofpaces O 6 and R D. A white objedl being placed between two Hc-vthtfurf^cewalls, the one whereof is black and the oiher«^^^=>^p*^«=white, the fame proportion will be found be-ofthe!oicmrftwcen the enlightened and the fhadowed parts »f5<
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