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Chap. XIII, Of Drawing, Limning, and Painting: with the lives of the famous Italian Painters, p. 128
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Having made your hand fit and ready in generall proportion, learn to give all bodies their true shadows according to their eminence and concavity, and to heighthen or deepen, as your body appeareth nearer or farther from the light ; which is a matter of great judgment, and indeed the soul (as I may say) of a picture.
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