IX. The Practice of Painting: 539.
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IX. The Practice of Painting: 539.
539.
PERSPECTIVE.
You are asked, O Painter, why the figures you draw on a small scale according to the laws of perspective do not appear--notwithstanding the demonstration of distance--as large as real ones--their height being the same as in those painted on the wall.
And why [painted] objects seen at a small distance appear larger than the real ones?
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