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


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LDE T0509   CID339  Of the use of Perspective in Painting

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Perspective is the Rule of Painting; the bigness of a Painted Figure, ought to discover the distance at which it is seen: And where a Fi gure appears as big as the Life, it will show it self to be near the Eye.