4017083A Treatise on Painting — Why, on measuring a Face, and then painting it of the same Size, it will appear larger than the natural oneJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci
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Chap. CCCXLVII.—Why, on measuring a Face, and then painting it of the same Size, it will appear larger than the natural one.
A B is the breadth of the space, or of the head, and it is placed on the paper at the distance C F, where the cheeks are, and it would have to stand back all A C, and then the temples would be car
Plate 22.
Chap. 346.
Page 196.
London. Published by J. Taylor High Holborn.
ried to the distance O R of the lines A F, B F; so that there is the difference C O and R D. It follows that the line C F, and the line D F, in order to become shorter[1], have to go and find the paper where the whole height is drawn, that is to say, the lines F A, and F B, where the true size is; and so it makes the difference, as I have said, of C O, and R D.
↑i.e. To be abridged according to the rules of perspective.
