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PROLEGOMENA AND GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK ON PAINTING

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The motion of a spectator who sees an object at rest often makes it seem as though the object at rest had acquired the motion of the moving body, while the moving person appears to be at rest.

ON PAINTING.

Objects in relief, when seen from a short distance with one eye, look like a perfect picture. If you look with the eye a, b at the spot c, this point c will appear to be at d, f, and if you look at it with the eye g, h will appear to be at m. A picture can never contain in itself both aspects.

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Let the object in relief t be seen by both eyes; if you will look at the object with the right eye m , keeping the left eye n shut,

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