{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0539.htm","path":"aor/dv/0539.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0539.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nYou 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.\nAnd why [painted] objects seen at a small distance appear larger than the real ones?","title":"Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 539.","type":"page"}