There where the noblest figures are display'd; Flings vivid forth to light the distant West, In Parian marble or Corinthian brass, Illumin'd thus, give to the gazing eye 430 Majus at in mediam lumen cadet usque tabellam Majus ut in statuis, per compita stantibus urbis, 315 320 So let thy pencil fling its beams around, 4.35 Nor e'er with darker shades their force con found. For shades too dark, dissever'd shapes will give, 440 Then only justly spread, when to the sight. clear May bear an object back, or bring it near; 445 Corpora sed circum umbra cavis latitabit oberrans; 325 Ut latè infusum lumen lata umbra sequatur. • Purum album esse potest propiusque magisque remotum: 330 b XXXIV. Of White and • XXXIV. Album et Ni e Aided by black it to the front aspires, That aid withdrawn it distantly retires; 450 d Whate'er we spy thro' colour'd light or air, A stain congenial on their surface bear, While neighb'ring forms by joint reflection give And mutual take the dyes that they receive. But where on both alike one equal light 455 Diffusive spreads, the blending tints unite. For breaking colours thus (the ancient phrase By Artists used) fair Venice claims our praise: Cum nigro antevenit propiùs; fugit absq. remotum; Purum autem nigrum antrorsum venit usque propinquum. Lux fucata suo tingit miscetque colore Corpora, sicque suo, per quem lux funditur, aër. f Corpora juncta simul, circumfusosque colores 335 Excipiunt, propriumque aliis radiosa reflectunt. • Pluribus in solidis liquidâ sub luce propinquis, Participes, mixtosque simul decet esse colores. Hanc norman Veneti pictores ritè sequuti, d XXXV. The Reflection of Colours. e XXXVI. The Union of Colours. f XXXV. Colorum Reflectio. 8 XXXVI. Unio Colo rum. She, cautious to transgress so sage a rule, hues As cut the parts or glaringly confuse; In tinsel trim no foppish form is drest, 465 Still flows in graceful unity the vest; 470 (Quæ fuit antiquis corruptio dicta colorum,) Cùm plures opere in magno posuêre figuras, 340 Nè conjuncta simul variorum inimica colorum Sunt soliti; variando tonis tunicamque, togamque, 345 h When small the space, or pure the ambient air Each form is seen in bright precision clear If far extend that intervening space, ; There all confus'd the objects faintly rise, 475 As if prepar❜d to vanish from our eyes. i Give them each foremost part a touch so bright, That o'er the rest, its domineering light Let greater parts advance before the small. 480 * Qua minus est spatii aërei, aut quà purior aër, Cuncta magis distincta patent, speciesque reservant: 350 Quâque magis densus nebulis, aut plurimus aër 1 Amplum inter fuerit spatium porrectus, in auras Confundet rerum species, et perdet inanes. Anteriora magis semper finita, remotis Incertis dominentur et abscedentibus, idque More relativo, ut majora minoribus extent. 355 h XXXVII. Of the Interposition of Air. i XXXVIII. The Rela tion of Distances. K XXXVII. Aër interpositus. 1 XXXVIII. Distantiarum Relatio. |