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TABLE OF CHAPTERS.
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341. How a Painter ought to put in Practice the Perspective of Colours. 164.
342. Various Precepts in Painting. 332.
343. The Brilliancy of a Landscape. 133.

MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.

344. Why a painted Object does not appear so far distant as a real one, though they be conveyed to the Eye by equal Angles. 333.
345. How to draw a Figure Handing upon its Feet, to appear forty Braccia high, in a Space of twenty Braccia, with proportionate Members. 300.
346. How to draw a Figure twenty-four Braccia high, upon a Wall twelve Braccia high. Plate XXII. 301.
347. Why, on measuring a Face, and then painting it of the fame Size, it will appear larger than the natural one. 297.
348. Why the most perfect Imitation of Nature will not appear to have the fame Relief as Nature itself. 341.
349. Universality of Painting. A Precept. 9.
350. In what Manner the Mirror is the true Master of Painters. 275.
351. Which Painting is to be esteemed the best. 276.
352. Of the Judgment to be made of a Painter’s Work. 335.
353. How to make an imaginary Animal appear natural. 286.
354. Painters are not to imitate one another. 24.
355. How to judge of one’s own Work. 274.
356. Of correcting Errors which you discover. 14.
357. The best Place for looking at a Picture. 280.
358. Of Judgment. 15.
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359.
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