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You must make the foremost figure in the picture less than the size
of nature in proportion to the number of braccia at which you place
it from the front line, and make the others in proportion by the
above rule.
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39.
PERSPECTIVE.
You are asked, O Painter, why the figures you draw on a small scale
according to the laws of perspective do not appear--notwithstanding
the demonstration of distance--as large as real ones--their height
being the same as in those painted on the wall.
And why [painted] objects seen at a small distance appear larger
than the real ones?
The right position of the artist, when painting, and of the
spectator (540-547)
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40.
OF PAINTING.
When you draw from nature stand at a distance of 3 times the height
of the object you wish to draw.
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