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


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LDE T0048   CID2  In what a Painter ought principally to exercise himself

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To Design well, and to dispose the Lights and Shadows of Figures suitably to their Situations, being the most considerable Parts of this Art, and those on which the greatest stress depends; it is in these that a Painter who wou'd make any great Proficiency, ought principally to exercise himself.