A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge (1598)
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600, Haydock, Richard · Printed at Oxford : By Ioseph Barnes for R.H. · leaf 124
OF THE PROPORTION OF THE CORINTHIANORDER. CHAT. XXVII. … H h Corinthian order (which I haue fhewed to bee ta-ken from the imitation of dainty Virgines, who arenimbleand quicke, by reafon of the tendernefle oftheir yeares, which maketh their limmes (lender,and therefore more capeable of pleafingand comelya&ion) hath generally nine diameters of his…
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