Volume Volume1\The Practice Of Painting
Entry# 538. The apparent size of figures in a picture (538-539)
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OF PLACING A FIGURE IN THE FOREGROUND OF A HISTORICAL PICTURE.
You must make the foremost figure in the picture less than the size
of nature in proportion to the number of braccia at which you place
it from the front line, and make the others in proportion by the
above rule.