404 And, skill'd remoter distances to keep, Jam signata minùs confusa coloribus aufert: › Densa figurarum solidis quæ corpora formis Subdita sunt tactu, non translucent, sed opaca * XXXII. Dense and opaque bodies with translucent ones. 410 295 8:00 • 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 Light and pellucid from that substance fly. 420 In translucendi spatio ut super aëra, nubes, Ut distincta magis firmo cum lumine et umbra, a * Non poterunt diversa locis duo lumina câdem In tabulâ paria admitti, aut æqualia pingi : 2 XXXIII. There must not be two equal Lights in the Picture. 310 * XXXIII. Non duo ex cœlo Lumina in tabulam æqualia. 2 There where the noblest figures are display'd; Thence gild the distant parts, and lessening fade: As fade the beams which Phœbus from the East 425 Flings vivid forth to light the distant West, In Parian marble or Corinthian brass, ray 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 ; 445 326 • Purum album esse potest propiusque magisque remotum: 330 b XXXIV. Of White • XXXIV. Album et and Black. Nigrum. Aided by black it to the front aspires, That aid withdrawn it distantly retires; But black unmix'd, of darkest midnight hue, Still calls each object nearer to the view. 450 a Whate'er we spy thro' colour'd light or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 Diffusive spreads, the blending tints unite. For breaking colours thus (the ancient phrase By Artists used) fair Venice claims our praise: 455 Cum nigro antevenit propiùs; fugit absq; remotum; Purum autem nigrum antrorsum venit usque propinquum. 332 Lux fucata suo tingit miscetque colore Corpora, sicque suo, per quem lux funditur, aër. * Corpora juncta simul, circumfusosque colores 35 Excipiunt, propriumque aliis radiosa reflectunt. & Pluribus in solidis liquidá sub luce propinquis, Participes, mixtosque simul decet esse colores. Hanc normam Veneti pictores ritè sequuti, |