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A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London


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LDE T0291   CID182  Of the Beauty of a Face

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Never let the Muscles in the Face be too bold, or terminate too abruptly; but take care that the Lights be sweet, and that they lose themselves insensibly in soft and pleasing Shadows; for upon your conduct in this point, depends all the Grace and Beauty of the Face.