A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . FIRST BOOKE OF THENATVRALLANDARTL FICIALL PROPORTION OF THINGS, BY IO: PAVLE LOMATIVS, PAIN-TER OF MILANE. The Definition of Tainting. CHAT. AlNTlNG isanavte,-tohichwith proportimablelines, and colours anfwerable to tie life, by obferuingtheTerfpeBiuelight, doeth fo imitate thenatureofcorporall thmges, that it not onely reprefenteth thethicknefe and roundnejfe thereof<vpon a fat, but al/otheir atlions and gejlures, exprej?i?ig moreover di-iters ajjeElions andpaf&ons of the minde. FOr the better vnfblding of which


A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . FIRST BOOKE OF THENATVRALLANDARTL FICIALL PROPORTION OF THINGS, BY IO: PAVLE LOMATIVS, PAIN-TER OF MILANE. The Definition of Tainting. CHAT. AlNTlNG isanavte,-tohichwith proportimablelines, and colours anfwerable to tie life, by obferuingtheTerfpeBiuelight, doeth fo imitate thenatureofcorporall thmges, that it not onely reprefenteth thethicknefe and roundnejfe thereof<vpon a fat, but al/otheir atlions and gejlures, exprej?i?ig moreover di-iters ajjeElions andpaf&ons of the minde. FOr the better vnfblding of which Definition we muft vndcrftand, thateuery naturall thing confifteth of matter and forme: whereunto Genusand Difference anfwerein Logicke. Whence the Logiciansfay,that Genusdeclareth the effence of things, and difference their fame and effentiallqua-lity. Wherefore I rhinke it notamifle 3 according to this doctrine,to layopen the aboue named Definition, by expounding al the differences 3whcr-by theartofPainting,is diftinguifhed from all other arts and fciences. TheGenus then in Painting U ^frte, which is prooued by two reafbns. The The Genu*firft is drawne from the Definition of Arte it felfe, which is nothin


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