4017079A Treatise on Painting — How to draw a Figure standing upon its Feet, to appear forty Braccia high, in a Space of twenty Braccia, with proportionate MembersJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci
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Chap. CCCXLV.—How to draw a Figure standing upon its Feet, to appear forty Braccia[1] high, in a Space of twenty Braccia, with proportionate Members.
In this, as in any other case, the painter is not to mind what kind of surface he has to work upon; particularly if his painting is to be seen from a determined point, such as a window, or any other opening. Because the eye is not to attend to the evenness or roughness of the wall, but only to what is to be represented as beyond that wall; such as a landscape, or any thing else. Nevertheless a curved surface, such as F R G, would be the best, because it has no angles.
↑The braccio is one foot ten inches and seven eighths English measure.
