A treatise of painting . om on a dark Gtoknd\ if it be both bright and ob*jcs Ground. fcurej \cz the bright part be found on a darkGround, and the part that is obfeure, on aGround that is different A little Light iilnmitting a Body, occafinnsEffeas of tjie shadows on the unilfummed fide, to be large,Lights, as an(j vc ^y jn ti-)cjr txtremes; as on the con-rently large, trary, a large Light makes the Shadows on thefame fide of the -Body, fmallerand lefsdiftinftin their Bounds: When a little, but flrongLight is incloled in another more large, butmore feeble withal, as the Sun in the A
A treatise of painting . om on a dark Gtoknd\ if it be both bright and ob*jcs Ground. fcurej \cz the bright part be found on a darkGround, and the part that is obfeure, on aGround that is different A little Light iilnmitting a Body, occafinnsEffeas of tjie shadows on the unilfummed fide, to be large,Lights, as an(j vc ^y jn ti-)cjr txtremes; as on the con-rently large, trary, a large Light makes the Shadows on thefame fide of the -Body, fmallerand lefsdiftinftin their Bounds: When a little, but flrongLight is incloled in another more large, butmore feeble withal, as the Sun in the Air, theweaken: will in that cafe have the effect of a Sha-Difproporti- dow, on the Bodies illumined by in the Tis very ridiculous, but at the fame rime vc-Circumft^n- ry common for Painters, to be overfeed in pro-ces, and lefs portioning the circumfiances of their Work:Considerable thus fQr ^dnce^ wc frequently fee Honfes foPainting to exceedingly fcanty, and their Doors fo mifei a- bc avoided. v*f IA6-. <.t By Leon a it do da Vinci* 147 My low, that they fcarce reach to the Knees, oftheir Inhabitants*, though they be even fuppolednearer the Eye of the Spectator, than the Pcr-fons who are to enter within them :, thus Ci-ties, and Towns are fbmetimes fo pitifully little,that one of the Figures behind, might ftrideover them, with eafc. And we have feen Por-ticos more than once, crowded with People,and yet fupported by fuch flender Pillars, thatone of the Figures has appeared with fomeofthe Pillars in his Span, railing himfelf up, aswith an ordinary Stick : But thefe, and feveralother Faults of this kind, are to be very ftudi-oufly avoided. The Out-lines or Contours of Bodies, are fbof the Ejfaint and indlfcernable to the Eye, that theym-mes of alofe themfelves at the finalleft diRanee, be- Body, calledtween the Eye, and the Objedt: thus a Man£rofi,es orcannot diftinguifli the Face of his nearelt onco Friend, by the Contour-, nor has he any otherway to know him
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