A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 56

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Muscles
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3999987A Treatise on Painting — Of the MusclesJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci
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Chap. LVI.—Of the Muscles.

The muscles of the human body are to be more or less marked according to their degree of action. Those only which act are to be shewn, and the more forcibly they act, the stronger they should be pronounced. Those that do not act at all must remain soft and flat.

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