Till, skill'd her separate features to design, 589 You know each muscle's site, and how they join. These while beneath some master's eye we trace, Vers'd in the lore of symmetry and grace, Boldly proceed: his precepts shall impart Each sweet deception of the pleasing art: Still more than precept shall his practice teach, 595 And add what self-reflection ne'er can reach. * Oft, when alone, the studious hour employ On what may aid your art, and what destroy; + Diversity of parts is sure to please, If all the various parts unite with ease; 600 Corpora viva super studium meditabitur, ante Illorum quàm symmetriam, internodia, formam Noverit, inspectis, docto evolvente magistro, 430 Archetypis, dulcesque dolos præsenserit artis. Plusque manu ante oculos quam voce docebiturusis. Quære artem quæcunque juvant; fuge quæque repugnant. § Corpora diversæ natura juncta placebunt; Sic ea quæ facili contempta labore videntur: 435 *LX. Art must be subservient to the Painter. + LXI. Diversity aud Facility are pleasing. + LX. Ars debet servire Pictori, non Pictor Arti. § LXI. Oculos recreant diversitas et operis facilitas, quæ speciatim Ars dicit. As surely charms that voluntary style, Which careless plays, and seems to mock at toil; For labour'd lines with cold exactness tire, 605 'Tis freedom only gives the force and fire 610 Æthereus quippe ignis inest et spiritus illis; rum, Expensi quàm signa typi stabilita nitescant, 440 * LXII. The Original must + LXII. Archetypus in be in the Head, and the Copy mente, Apographus in tela. on the Cloth. Then as the work proceeds, that work submit 615 + Give to the dictates of the learn'd respect, 620 625 Prævaleat sensus rationi, quæ officit arti Conspicuæ; inque oculis tantummodo circinus esto. § Utere doctorum monitis, nec sperne super bus Discere, quæ de te fuerit sententia vulgi : Est cæcus nam quisque suis in rebus, et expers Ast ubi consilium deerit sapientis amici, 445 Id tempus dabit, atque mora, intermissa labori. 450 LXIII. The Compass to be in the Eyes. + LXIV. Pride an enemy to good Painting. + LXIII. Cercinus in Oculis. § LXIV. Superbia Pictori nocet plurimum. But these subdu'd, let thy determin'd mind * By nature's sympathetic power, we see, As is the Parent, such the progeny: 630 Ev'n Artists, bound by their instinctive law, 635 Non facilis tamen ad nutus, et inania vulgi pictor, Ut data quæ genio colat, abstineatque negatis. 455 * LXV. Know thyself. + LXV. Nosce teipsum. 1 645 But as the blushing fruits, the breathing flowers, 650 † When shines the Morn, when in recruited course The spirits flow, devote their active force Fructibus utque suus nunquam est sapor, atque venustas Floribus, insueto in fundo, præcoce sub anni 460 Tempore, quos cultus violentus et ignis adegit: Sic nunquam, nimio quæ sunt extorta labore, Et picta invito genio, nunquam illa placebunt. § Vera super meditando, manûs labor improbus adsit; * LXVI. Perpetually practice, and do easily what you have conceived. + LXVII. The Morning most proper for work. + LXVI. Quod mente conceperis manu comproba. § LXVII. Matutinum Tempus labori aptum. |