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A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London


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LDE T0356   CID231  Of the Motions suitable to the Action in which a Figure is employed

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The Motions of your Figures, must always show that Degree of Strength, which they may be rationally supposed to employ in their Respective Actions; that is, a Man in lifting a Stick, ought never to exert the same Effort, which wou'd be necessary to heave a Beam: Remember, therefore, to proportion their several Efforts, to the Quality of the Work, and the Weight of the Burthens they bear.