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covered over to a certain thickness with Wax or Earthy you might yet by
a Piercer, with great ease, readinefs and certainty come to find out what-
soever Point or Term you would desire to sind in the said Statue h sor as
much as it may be clearly demonstrated, that by the turning about os this
Gnomon, the Level makes a circular Line like the Superficies os a Cylinder,
with which sort of Figure the Statue fo superinduced as asoresaid, seemsto
be inclosed and incircled : This Position eftablissied, you may safely inser*
that as by making way through the Air (the Statue not being covered with
Wax or Earth) you guide your Piercer directly towards the Point T, which,
sor Example's sake* we will suppofe to be the <%elieVo of the Chin, by the
same Reason, is the Statue were covered over with Wax or Earth, might
you by boring through the said Wax or Earth attain the point aim'd at,
the Wax or Earth poffefsing but the same place which otherwife the Air
would have done. From what has been thus discourfed concerning thefe
things, it may be concluded that the Effect we mentioned before concern-
ing the making of one Half of the Statue in the Isse of Pharos, and sinish-
ing the other Half in the Mountains of Carrara, is a thing not only not im-
poisible, but very eafy to be performed : For let the faid Statue or Model
of Phidias be divided into two Segments, and fuppose, for example* this
Section of a plain Supersicies be made in the Waifte or Girdling-place,
doubtless by the assiftance only of our Definitor it will be eafy to mark out in
theGVc/e of the Inftrumerit whatfoever Points fliall bethought fit, belong-
ing to the divided Superficies. Thefe things granted to be feafible,you fliall
not need to make any cjueftion of being able to find out at pleafure in the
Model, any Part whatsoever you fliall defire to find 5 and that only by
drawing a fmall red Line in the Model, which serves inftead of an Interse-
ron of the Horizon, in the place where the Segment fliould terminate,
if the Statue were divided 3 and the Points fo mark'd will direct you the
way how the Work may be finifhed : And in like manner may other
things be done, as hath been said before. Finally, by the whole Difcourfe
here made concerning all these Particulars, it is sufficiently evident, that
all Meafuresy Proportions, and Limitations are to be taken, whether in the
Life, or Copy, by a mod certain and infallible Rule for the bringing of
any Work to perfection in this Art 3 and we could wifli that this way of
proceeding were more ferioufly intended by all our Painters and Sculptors^
fince, if it were, they would foon come to find the extraordinary Benefit
of it. But becaufe all things are moft illuftrated by Example, and that the
pains we have already taken in this matter may conduce to the greater
advantage, we have thought fit to bestow yet a little sarther Labour in
defcribing the Meafures of all the principal Parts in Man's Body 3 and not
only the Parts of this or that particular Man, but as far as was poflible,
even the very Perfection of all beautiful and excellent Proportions 3 the fe-
veral Parts whereof having obferved in several humane Bodies, fome ex-
celling chiessy in this, some in that external Gift os Nature, we have thought
material to fet down in writing 3 sollowing the Example of him, who
being employed by the Crotoniati to make the Statue of their Goddeft, went
about collecting srom the most beautisul Virgins (whom, among many,
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aids.
Head 0(4
the Planewlt
"ome to touch b
ntl,«liictii
tietWk
r: Secondly, ol:
w &t distant d
take notice, b;
m k Pin
JoSistsssiiS*
leftElbowisfous
Ac S*jk or
»y be ad
tdcts, andotht
- But if
flu*1".
Leon Baptista Albert! os STATUES.
71
covered over to a certain thickness with Wax or Earthy you might yet by
a Piercer, with great ease, readinefs and certainty come to find out what-
soever Point or Term you would desire to sind in the said Statue h sor as
much as it may be clearly demonstrated, that by the turning about os this
Gnomon, the Level makes a circular Line like the Superficies os a Cylinder,
with which sort of Figure the Statue fo superinduced as asoresaid, seemsto
be inclosed and incircled : This Position eftablissied, you may safely inser*
that as by making way through the Air (the Statue not being covered with
Wax or Earth) you guide your Piercer directly towards the Point T, which,
sor Example's sake* we will suppofe to be the <%elieVo of the Chin, by the
same Reason, is the Statue were covered over with Wax or Earth, might
you by boring through the said Wax or Earth attain the point aim'd at,
the Wax or Earth poffefsing but the same place which otherwife the Air
would have done. From what has been thus discourfed concerning thefe
things, it may be concluded that the Effect we mentioned before concern-
ing the making of one Half of the Statue in the Isse of Pharos, and sinish-
ing the other Half in the Mountains of Carrara, is a thing not only not im-
poisible, but very eafy to be performed : For let the faid Statue or Model
of Phidias be divided into two Segments, and fuppose, for example* this
Section of a plain Supersicies be made in the Waifte or Girdling-place,
doubtless by the assiftance only of our Definitor it will be eafy to mark out in
theGVc/e of the Inftrumerit whatfoever Points fliall bethought fit, belong-
ing to the divided Superficies. Thefe things granted to be feafible,you fliall
not need to make any cjueftion of being able to find out at pleafure in the
Model, any Part whatsoever you fliall defire to find 5 and that only by
drawing a fmall red Line in the Model, which serves inftead of an Interse-
ron of the Horizon, in the place where the Segment fliould terminate,
if the Statue were divided 3 and the Points fo mark'd will direct you the
way how the Work may be finifhed : And in like manner may other
things be done, as hath been said before. Finally, by the whole Difcourfe
here made concerning all these Particulars, it is sufficiently evident, that
all Meafuresy Proportions, and Limitations are to be taken, whether in the
Life, or Copy, by a mod certain and infallible Rule for the bringing of
any Work to perfection in this Art 3 and we could wifli that this way of
proceeding were more ferioufly intended by all our Painters and Sculptors^
fince, if it were, they would foon come to find the extraordinary Benefit
of it. But becaufe all things are moft illuftrated by Example, and that the
pains we have already taken in this matter may conduce to the greater
advantage, we have thought fit to bestow yet a little sarther Labour in
defcribing the Meafures of all the principal Parts in Man's Body 3 and not
only the Parts of this or that particular Man, but as far as was poflible,
even the very Perfection of all beautiful and excellent Proportions 3 the fe-
veral Parts whereof having obferved in several humane Bodies, fome ex-
celling chiessy in this, some in that external Gift os Nature, we have thought
material to fet down in writing 3 sollowing the Example of him, who
being employed by the Crotoniati to make the Statue of their Goddeft, went
about collecting srom the most beautisul Virgins (whom, among many,
U he