"This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist."

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Source : Cennino Cennini (1954). “The Craftsman's Handbook”, p.17, Courier Corporation

Cennino Cennini

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