The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 684
gures (hews the Reiult or both. I have formerly afferted, what conftitutes a beautiful Adion^namely, a good Turn of the Members and Motion of the Head, Armsy Hands and Feet. . , r . , j The iff Example chiefly concerns Statuaries* who, by oblerving thafi Pofition, will fhew that they underftand it,… … Chap. 7: Of Statuary. we are confined to a {ingle and fixed Light, we ought to chufe a properand advantageous one, that the Out-line, as our principal Purpofe,may thereby maintain its Force, and produce the Effect and Decorumwedeftre ; as you fee here with its oppofite. We have formerly faid, that…
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