A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . % jf^ftwrB* * * * * *-**^rr* £OF THE VERTVE AND PRAISE OF PROPORTION. CHAT. Ill. V c h is-the importance and verttie of Proportion\ that nothing can any way (atisfie the eie,without the helpethereof. So that whatsoever worketh any pieafure ordelightinvs, doth therefore content vs, becaufethegrace of Proportion , confiding in the mcafuie of thepartes, appearcth therein. Wherefore all the inven-tions of men carry with them fo much the more graceand beauty, by how much the more ingenuoufly theyare proportioned. W hence Vit
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . % jf^ftwrB* * * * * *-**^rr* £OF THE VERTVE AND PRAISE OF PROPORTION. CHAT. Ill. V c h is-the importance and verttie of Proportion\ that nothing can any way (atisfie the eie,without the helpethereof. So that whatsoever worketh any pieafure ordelightinvs, doth therefore content vs, becaufethegrace of Proportion , confiding in the mcafuie of thepartes, appearcth therein. Wherefore all the inven-tions of men carry with them fo much the more graceand beauty, by how much the more ingenuoufly theyare proportioned. W hence Vitrttvim imhjbat wbofoeuer willproceede inU varies vitb iudgement, mmfi needts be acquitted with the nature andforce of proportion: which freeing well and kindcly vnderfteode, will makehim not only an excellent Judge of ancient and late workcmen, but alfo aninventor and performer of rare andexcellent matters, himfelfe. Now the crTetfcs proceeding from proportion are vnipeakeable : the Thecffeae*principall whereof, is that mate Hie and be autie,which is fcunde in bo- i?^oudies called by VitruvittSyEuritbmia . And hence if is-, that whenweebchol
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