A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Nature of Folds in Draperies
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Chap. CXLIV.Of the Nature of Folds in Draperies.

Many painters prefer making the folds of their draperies with acute angles, deep and precise; others with angles hardly perceptible; and some with none at all; but instead of them, certain curved lines.