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A treatise of painting (1721)

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 · London : Pinted for J. Senex ... and W. Taylor ... · leaf 260

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ncluding thofe two Central Lines, will fee the fpaccG D, beyond, and behind the faid Object ; and the Eye A will fee the Space FD, and the Eye B, the SpaceG £•, fo that the two Eyes will fee, behind the Object C, the whole Space F E. By which Means that Object, C, becomes, as it were, tranfparent,… … *By LeonardcTda Vinci^ iffy is lefs in Extent than the Object which it views;whence, the Trtlth of our Propofition is fairlyevinced*, A painted Figure intercepting thewhole fpace behind if, fo that the Eye is pre-cluded from the fight of any part of the Ground^found behind the Circumference of that…

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