A treatise on painting . of the whole body,amafs, and gather the parts of the drapery to-gether. Above all, obferve, that in hiftories,or in pieces conliiting of feveral figures, youihew a variety in the draperies; fo that if thefolds of fome appear grofs and ftiff, as if thecloth were thick and flubborn, let the foldsof others fit clofer and more neatly, as confift-ing of a finer thread; the fides and edges ofthe one being llraighter, and thofe of the othermore the different Molf paintcrs chufc to fliew their draperieswajsoi p^u^h rufflcd, thclr turns and angles very fud- f
A treatise on painting . of the whole body,amafs, and gather the parts of the drapery to-gether. Above all, obferve, that in hiftories,or in pieces conliiting of feveral figures, youihew a variety in the draperies; fo that if thefolds of fome appear grofs and ftiff, as if thecloth were thick and flubborn, let the foldsof others fit clofer and more neatly, as confift-ing of a finer thread; the fides and edges ofthe one being llraighter, and thofe of the othermore the different Molf paintcrs chufc to fliew their draperieswajsoi p^u^h rufflcd, thclr turns and angles very fud- ftnting the tolas R ^ ~ indrapery. den and acute; others take a loiter courle,and make their angles almoll infenfible; andothers ufe no angles at all, contenting them-fclves with little cavities, or finkings Ihat part of a fold which is the mod re-the folds of a jnote from its center, or from the place of itsrefiraint, whence the fold commences, will re-cover more of its natural Hate, than any other //.v BY LEONARDO DA VINCI. I 87 part. This is owing to a faculty, which allnatural things are found to have in commonwith each other, to wit, felf-prefervation, oran endeavour to preferve their own manners ofbeing; in confequcncc of which, a ftuft uni-form and alike in its thicknefs and (trength,endeavours to continue flat and even ; fo thatwhen, on account of fome fold or plait, it isforced to quit its natural habitude, it ftrugglescontinually to retrieve itfelf; and ftill in pro-portion as it recedes from the place of its con-llraint, it approaches nearer to its originalplainnefs, by expanding and unfolding , for inftance, fuppofe A B C the fold of adrapery, and A B the place where it receives itsforce or con(h-i<flion, 1 have already fliewn thatthe part mod remote from the rife or root of afold, will have recovered the <2;reateft Ihare ofits natural form ; whence it follows, that Cbeing the moft diilant part of the fold, willlikewife be wid
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