A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 105
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Chap. CV.—Motions appropriated to the Subject.
The motions of your figures are to be expressive of the quantity of strength requisite to the force of the action. Let not the same effort be used to take up a stick as would easily raise a piece of timber. Therefore shew great variety in the expression of strength, according to the quality of the load to be managed.