And as the center of some convex glass, 390 Draws to a point the congregated mass On all thy rounded groups the circling glow. 395 As is the Sculptor's, such the Painter's aim, Their labour different, but their end the same; What from the marble the rude chissel breaks, The softer pencil from the canvas takes: 400 285 Sintque ita discreti inter se, ratione colorum, Mente modoque igitur plastes, et pictor, eodem Dispositum tractabit opus; quæ sculptor in orbem Atterit, hæc rupto procul abscedente colore Assequitur pictor, fugientiaque illa retrorsum 290 404 And, skill'd remoter distances to keep, * In silver clouds in ether's blue domain, Jam signata minùs confusa coloribus aufert: * XXXII. Dense and opaque bodies with translucent ones. 410 295' XXXII. Corpora densa et opaca translucentibus. Rough let it swell and boldly meet the sight, Mark'd with peculiar strength of shade and light; There blend each earthly tint of heaviest sort, 415 At once to give consistence and support, While the bright wave, soft cloud, of azure sky, Light and pellucid from that substance fly. But yield to one alone the power to blaze 420 In translucendi spatio ut super aëra, nubes, Ut distincta magis firmo cum lumine et umbra, a Non poterunt diversa locis duo lumina eâdem In tabulâ paria admitti, aut æqualia pingi : XXXIII. There must not be two equal Lights in the Picture. a 310 XXXIII. Non duo ex cœlo Lumina in tabulam æqualia. There where the noblest figures are display'd; Thence gild the distant parts, and lessening fade: As fade the beams which Phoebus from the East 425 Flings vivid forth to light the distant West, In Parian marble or Corinthian brass, Majus at in mediam lumen cadet usque tabellam 430 315 320 Majus ut in statuis, per compita stantibus urbis, Lumen habent partes superæ, minus inferioris; Idem erit in tabulis; majorque nec umbra, vel ater Membra figurarum intrabit color, atque secabit: So let thy pencil fling its beams around, 435 Nor e'er with darker shades their force con found. For shades too dark dissever'd shapes will give, And sink the parts their softness would relieve; Then only well reliev'd, when like a veil Round the full lights the wand'ring shadows. steal; 440 Then only justly spread, when to the sight A breadth of shade pursues a breadth of light. This charm to give, great Titian wisely made The cluster'd grapes his rule of light and shade. b White, when it shines with unstain'd lustre clear, May bear an object back, or bring it near; Corpora sed circum umbra cavis latitabit oberrans ; Lucis et umbrarum normam appellâsse racemum. C 445 326 Purum album esse potest propiusque magisque remotum: 330 D XXXIV. Of White • XXXIV. Album et and Black. Nigrum. |