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take the best parts of many beautiful faces, of which the beauty is
confirmed rather by public fame than by your own judgment; for you
might be mistaken and choose faces which have some resemblance to
your own. For it would seem that such resemblances often please us;
and if you should be ugly, you would select faces that were not
beautiful and you would then make ugly faces, as many painters do.
For often a master's work resembles himself. So select beauties as I
tell you, and fix them in your mind.
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88.
Of the limbs, which ought to be carefully selected, and of all the
other parts with regard to painting.
5
89.
When selecting figures you should choose slender ones rather than
lean and wooden ones.
5
90.
OF THE MUSCLES OF ANIMALS.
The hollow spaces interposed between the muscles must not be of such
a character as that the skin should seem to cover two sticks laid
side by side like c, nor should they seem like two sticks somewhat
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