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


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LDE T0392   CID251  Of a Man throwing anything from him with Violence

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A Man who wou'd launch a Dart, hurl a Stone, or the like, with Violence, may be represented in two different Habitudes; that is, he may be either seen preparing himself for the Action, or performing the Action it self: If you show him in a preparatory State, remember that the Haunch, over the Foot which bears the Body, be seen, directly, under the middle Line of the Breast, and the Hole of the Neck; and let the Shoulder, of the opposite side, be advanced, so as to hang perpendicularly over the Foot, on which the Body rests; so that, if the Right Foot, support the Body, let its Toe, be seen perpendicularly under the left Shoulder.