A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 89

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Disposition of Members preparing to act with great Force, Plate XIV.
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Chap. LXXXIX.—Of the Disposition of Members preparing to act with great Force, Plate XIV.

When a man prepares himself to strike a violent blow, he bends and twists his body as far as he can ​to the side contrary to that which he means to strike, and collecting all his strength, he, by a complex motion, returns and falls upon the point he has in view[1].

  1. ↑ See chapters civ. cliv.

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