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Show Book 111. Book III. 0f the Face. 86; ' du'é'tors, and Conflrié'tors , the fine Mufcles of the Lips ‘, all which being framed in a due proportion, and decent Figure and Magnitude, and fitly Con- . joyned to each other, do {peak the Symmetry and Harmony of parts, commonly called Beauty. The elegancy of the Face, is a rare Syfteme, compoféd of great variety The Face de. ‘ 0 of lineaments and proportions ', adorned with different Colours Lights rcnbcd. Shades, and Motions. ) ' Lineaments, are the outward furface of the Face, Natures Firft and more The rim. V C H A P. rough draught, made up of longer and {hotter Lines; the longer producing $2."; ""h‘ the chiefefi part of the Face, and may be called the ordinary and plain part whim" of the vifage; alpd the morefculrlious being made up of the fliorrer and fillin the Fm lines do ive t e Face. 2. art er accom lilhment addin reater {oft nefs gg ' P and ECDdCEICfS to it. And the draught of the Lines of the Face ( being the ground of the Art I. . oil'ainting) is called Defigning, which being ill performed, it is impoflible 0f the Farm to make alaudable Pié‘ture, very much depending upon the good Drawing of the naked, and undifguifed Lineaments, wherein you may plainly perceive what Beauty and Force there is in a good and well proportioned Delign. The Face is a H E Face being a handfome Frontifpiece ( embellilhing the And there is nothing more worthy our remarque, then the laft clofes the Thcfinifhin: $5,537.12; "ml- anterior region of the higheft Apartiment, relating to the elegant frame of a Mans Body) doth prefent the profpeét finifhing Lines, which circumfcribe the portraiéture of the Face, and areJNa- hghspacifrtthc . tures Mailer-piece, being drawn with wonderful fubtilty, and are f0 fine , of a rare Landfcip, drawn with Natures curious Penfil in ercellent PCl'f})E&lVC, made up of many Lights and Shades, rendring this gracefulFrontifpiece Round and Soft, which is accomplilhtd with variety of parts, confifling in divers {hapes and fizes, and beautified and thin, do feem to vanilh by little and little, till by degrees they convey themfelvesoutof our fight; And here is the great Glory of Art to imitate Nature, in drawing the utmofl Lines according to the Life, which ought to be aceomplifhed with fo much finenefs giving the true and curious pro- With fevcral colours ( illuitrating each other) and dreiied with differentSur‘ , .1 faces, fome being Plane, others Convcxe, and a Third Concave. mifi: of other things behind. Apeller his Piéture, which was known among the Grecian: by the Name of Nomclqremor, adored for the extream and finifhing Lines, which were cut off with {0 much fubtilty, after the Life, that it feemed to Ptand in competition with Nature it felf. 3 And Nature hath "0‘ only graced the Vilage With decent Lineaments, hht hi: "1:". The highefi part of this Frontifpiece, mof't properly called, is the Forthead, cloathed with a plain, finooth, and white furface, and adorned with a kind of Oval Figure. Tthics are The Parts adjoyning to the Forehead, are Two tranfparent Orbs, difphy' i :2": 333'" ing thcmfclves in various motions in their Orbites, as in proper Sphaeres, to fimfifw portions of the Face in its thinner clofing Lineaments, ending with a pro- hath 31h) confiituted divers meafures, how one part Of the Face hOIdCth an '52:? "h" give reception to innumerable Images of things (arrayed with beams of ,‘ Analogy furtable to another; fo that Beauty may be ftyled in home kind, a Light) placed in different pofitionsi , due modelling the parts of the Face, as being fitly united to each other in re- ln the middle of this delightful profpet‘}, is fituated the Noi'e, the Promi- Shh" proportions 3 whence arifeth a mutual confent of Parts, the Symmetry "flurry": ncntel} part of the Face (the mofi receptive of Light) fhading one lide Of or Harmony, commonly called the Air of the Face, which courtcth the Eye U m m the neighbouring parts : This fine ridge is furniihed with Two Cavities, 3‘ ' '; 0f the Spectator With Pleafantnefs and Wonder 5 and I COHCCiVC it "013 alto- Pipes entertaining Air, perfumed with various Odors, Treating the {enfeof _ i gether ml'mbahh'i that Artifis have borrowed Analogy and Harmony from Sim-11mg. tn, The Sides of the Face are grac'd with Cheeksdhaded with Groves of Hair, the proportions, obfervable in Arithmetical Numbers, and Mufical ConW45 5 Analogy and Harmony being nothing elfe but Rules and Meafurcs and befet with Rofes and Lillies, as painted with Red and White ( rarely lfl‘ ‘,"f °hdlflhr6ht Numbers and Sounds, agreeing in due proportions. Whereupon termixed) and are melted into each other by a [wear foftnels, making ade- 1 the Mailers ofPainting and Mufick have borrowed terms from each other, lightf‘u] harmony. ti. zliebllipsirle. The lower region of this Frontifpiece is adorned with Two Lips, {huh I A: m ‘ °" ting and opening the lmall apartiment of the Mouth, as with folding D0013» f ‘ ingrlonrs. to treat our Selves with the reception of Dainties ( endued with variety 0 a ‘ delicious Tai‘ts) and with pleafant Difcourlcs, the amicable expreflions 0 the Mind. Ehfigrf‘u'l‘w The Mm," Subflmta of Beauty is made Up offeveral parts of the Face, of the Bones (as a Bafis) of the Forhead, and of the Upper and lower cm" Mandible, into which are implanted the Mufcles of the Forehead, NOR?» Cheeks, Chin, and above all, the Elevators, Deprclfors Adduaors, Ah 7 dué‘tolh ; I and transferred them into each others Art, givin us to underfland, that their 1‘3"": C0"hptinvg in the regular Analogy 0 Numbers, may mutually "PPlY defeéts "'1 Terms and Language. 80that the elegancy of the Face may 58!le fiylcd certain Numbers, dif- The eleganty ' _ ' pared 1" excellent order, a harmony 0f Parts united in 3 300d decorum, omflm holding as well a good correfpondence with each other, as with the whole, plainly evident, becaufe the bell: proportionedparts, being fevered from Each other, lofe their former handfomnefs, claiming nothing worthy our Love 0tEl'teem, but 3'" the parts Oh the Face well framed and fet together, "comPhlh apcrfeé't Syflzeme, made by communion of parts with the whole, M to beautified |