A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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To Design after Nature, or the Life, you must be removed from the Object, three times Magnitude; taking care as you draw each roke, to observe what parts of your†Modeleet under the Principal, or Perpendicular ne.
†The Model is generally taken for any Natural Object at presents it self to be drawn; in particular, it fignis a Statue. Nudity, or the like, set up in the Acade mies, to be Copied by the Novices in Painting.