A treatise of painting . This muftfvom the lofs always ceafe eer Motion can commence-, and everof the £?>-the further any body is removd from its Eqvil^briurn, the quicker and more violent is its the Earn* A Figure Handing on one of its Feet, will alllibrium of a ways have the Shoulder of that lide lower thanFigure. the others and the ?ole of the Neck, at the fame time, perpendicularly over the middle of theLeg which fupports the Body. This will be theCafe, in whatever Line the Figure be feen •, whe-ther its Arms be but little advanced from theBody -, whether it be free of any Bur
A treatise of painting . This muftfvom the lofs always ceafe eer Motion can commence-, and everof the £?>-the further any body is removd from its Eqvil^briurn, the quicker and more violent is its the Earn* A Figure Handing on one of its Feet, will alllibrium of a ways have the Shoulder of that lide lower thanFigure. the others and the ?ole of the Neck, at the fame time, perpendicularly over the middle of theLeg which fupports the Body. This will be theCafe, in whatever Line the Figure be feen •, whe-ther its Arms be but little advanced from theBody -, whether it be free of any Burthen on itdBack, its Shoulder, or its Band \ or whether thaLeg out of Office, be not far detached from theBody, either forwards or the srace- The Members of a Body, muft be fo managed^fulnefs of the as that they may produce the EfFecl, intended^Members. by the Figure, in the molt graceful Manner \ Thus front p. fBy Leonardo da Vinci. 115 Thus, in reprefenting a Figure that may appearnoble and generous, obferve that its Members•be (lender and-genteel, the Mufcles not too boldand apparent, but even thofe which Neceffityrequires to be feen, touchd with Softnefs andDelicacy \ the Members, and efpecially theArms, muft not appear ftiff and obllinate, thatis, they mull not be ftretchd out in right LineswiththcothcrsMembers to which they are joy nd;and if it be found neceflary, on account of thePofition of the Figure, that the right Haunch befeen higher than the Left, let the left Shoulderbe higher than the Right •, and let its JonBurehang perpendicularly over the moll elevatedpart of the Haunch : Let the Hole of the Neck,be always directly over the middle of the Jon-Bure of the Foot on which the Figure refts; andlet the Leg which does not fnpport the Body,have its Knee lower than the other Knee, anddrawn near the other Leg. As to the Attitudes ofthe Head and the Arms, they are infinite, andther
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