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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
A Fault in Painters
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Chap. CXL.—A Fault in Painters.

It is a very great fault in a painter to repeat the same motions in figures, and the same folds in draperies in the same composition, as also to make all the faces alike.

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