A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 89

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud

Of the Disposition of Members preparing to act with great Force, Plate XIV.

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Chap. LXXXIX.—Of the Disposition of Members preparing to act with great Force, Plate XIV.

When a man prepares himself to strike a violent blow, he bends and twists his body as far as he can to the side contrary to that which he means to strike, and collecting all his strength, he, by a complex motion, returns and falls upon the point he has in view^[1].

↑ See chapters civ. cliv.

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[1] See chapters civ. cliv.

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