Volume Volume1\Proportions and Movements of the Human Figure
Entry# 362.
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OF PAINTING.
Indicate which are the muscles, and which the tendons, which become
prominent or retreat in the different movements of each limb; or
which do neither but are passive . And remember that these
indications of action are of the first importance and necessity in
any painter or sculptor who professes to be a master &c.
And indicate the same in a child, and from birth to decrepitude at
every stage of its life; as infancy, childhood, boyhood, youth &c.
And in each express the alterations in the limbs and joints, which
swell and which grow thinner.