A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . Intern) Hh iij. thefe 9o THE SECOND $00%E. thefc motions of garments come fo neerc the life , that it is evident,that they are able to make a picture feeme diftorted and ilfavored , pro-curing the fcorne and laughter of the beholders. Such were fbme ofthofe,whkh were vfed by our great Graundfathers fome 200 yearcs fince,which feemed like rounde ftickes or candels hanging downe . Which,fbme of our late workemen of good note have alfb vfed, making theirmotions too long, and drawnc out bythefoldes like vnto hanging canes,w
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . Intern) Hh iij. thefe 9o THE SECOND $00%E. thefc motions of garments come fo neerc the life , that it is evident,that they are able to make a picture feeme diftorted and ilfavored , pro-curing the fcorne and laughter of the beholders. Such were fbme ofthofe,whkh were vfed by our great Graundfathers fome 200 yearcs fince,which feemed like rounde ftickes or candels hanging downe . Which,fbme of our late workemen of good note have alfb vfed, making theirmotions too long, and drawnc out bythefoldes like vnto hanging canes,without any kinde of grace . Another defect in the drapery of oldcpictures I fmde, which is that they feeme to bee mades like fcales infbmfort: which I thinke, theytooke from the imitation of the Models ofmen,clothed with paper . Which poynt afterwards attayncd to highperfection, by the great induftry o&Bramante, and Andreas Mantegns,andwas afterwardes reformed, and made much more abfolutc by AlbertPurer, zndLucas of BS9S£3| OF THE MOTIONS OF TREES, ANDALLOTHERTHINGESTHATARE MOOVED, CHAT. XXIII. Ast of all the motions of everything which is moo-ved,oughttobeexprefIedwithiudgmct, accordinglyas they agree with the thin g wherunto they are giuen,fometimes quickejfbmetimes flow, fbmtimes moouc-ablc,,whcntheyare fhaken of the wind, their fmaler(St therfore moreplyable)boughes,muft be refembled with fuch an acti-on, that they may more ftrike one againfr another, byyeelding and declyning from the part whence the windbloweth, then theftiffer(& therefore flower) the body notwithstanding remaining fhronge 8cftedfaft. The boughes growing from thence, begin a littje to bend, and the other
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