A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . CMcrcurialiftes: Titian mVecellinoiox. Ltmaryes .«and Gaudentius FerratodaValdugia aCMilaner,ioTJouialifies. »7 I ^fe^g^fe^ 3$£g^¥$£%$%$3QF^£ffro 1 eju?«> (j3*Jv) (Tlf^J) <»V*£3 *lia£« «l[iA -irit ^iryCi (yJIs ej*^ OF THE POWER OF PROPOR. TION, AND HOW BY IT THE TRVEBIGNESSE OF THE COLOSSIMAY BE SHEWED. QHaT. XXXII. Ecav se it is vnpofliblc , that figures or ftatuaesfhouldcometoourcie intheriuft quantitie and big-nefle (infbmuch as they being proportionable doe rJ* *»*»•/?*»•fend out their beames proportionally to
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . CMcrcurialiftes: Titian mVecellinoiox. Ltmaryes .«and Gaudentius FerratodaValdugia aCMilaner,ioTJouialifies. »7 I ^fe^g^fe^ 3$£g^¥$£%$%$3QF^£ffro 1 eju?«> (j3*Jv) (Tlf^J) <»V*£3 *lia£« «l[iA -irit ^iryCi (yJIs ej*^ OF THE POWER OF PROPOR. TION, AND HOW BY IT THE TRVEBIGNESSE OF THE COLOSSIMAY BE SHEWED. QHaT. XXXII. Ecav se it is vnpofliblc , that figures or ftatuaesfhouldcometoourcie intheriuft quantitie and big-nefle (infbmuch as they being proportionable doe rJ* *»*»•/?*»•fend out their beames proportionally to the eie or din?>fh* ?*-conu-soi tne^raw/^interpoungthere the line oiia- getbteibi6,r,terfection ;as if they were beheld thtoughaglafle,fo ^.that the eie cannot comprehend fo long a 1 nape by * r ^this^rvww^becaufeat one inftantit apprehendethonely point or the fmalleft minute that can be imagined, difper- fing. but one nS THE VI^ST (BOO^E imghisbeames to findeout the feuerall partes of the obie&fucceffiuely,which the farther they bee diftant from the eie, the more they loofe oftheir proportion) therefore Arte hath inuented a meanes how wee maycome to the knowledge thereof by their proportions, which are fb to beemeafured, that they may be exactly feene. And becaufe thefe proporti-ons were fo ordained by the great Painter of Nature itfelfe, Succeeding a*geshaue brought foorth certaine worthies, as Tfjmrode, lapzter Betas,zn&Semiramis amongft xhtBdilonians--, ^Amafis and SefoHris amongftthe JEgyptianS) and diuerfe amongft the Grecians and Romanes, who tookcvpon them to extende the proportion of amanvntoa larger quantity, asmay appeare by the Co/o/3,whofeftatureswere raifed as high as towers;which becaufe we cannot beholde,butby carting our eies vp on high,ther-fore their heades will feeme very fmallirt refpett of their feete, as fhallbefliewcd irfthefixthbooke,chapt: 18. Wherefore for
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