A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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Observe that every Part of a Whole, be well proportion'd to the Whole, of which it is a Part; as if a Man be thick and short in his Shape, let the same Proportion be continued through every Member: let his Arms, for Instance, be thick and short, his Hands Broad and Brawny, his Fingers big, and their Jonctures suitable; and so of the rest.