Vitruvius, De architectura libri decem, 1567

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              uerſum domos ſupra tegularum tecta poteſt habere, aut columnas, ſeu faſtigiorum explicationes?
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s17898" xml:space="preserve">Hæc enim ſupra contignationes ponuntur, non ſupra tegularum tecta. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17899" xml:space="preserve">Si ergo quæ non poſſunt in
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              ueritate rationem habere facti, in picturis probauerimus, accedemus & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17900" xml:space="preserve">nos his ciuitatibus, quæ pro-
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              pter hæc uitia inſi pientes ſunt iudicatæ. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17901" xml:space="preserve">Itaque Apaturius contra reſpondere non eſt auſus, ſed ſuſtu-
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              lit ſcenam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17902" xml:space="preserve">ad rationem ueritatis commutatam, poſtea correctam approbauit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17903" xml:space="preserve">Vtinam dijimmor
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              tales feciſſent, ut Licinius reuiuiſceret, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17904" xml:space="preserve">corrigeret hanc amentiam, tectoriorumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17905" xml:space="preserve">errantia inſtitu-
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              ta. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17906" xml:space="preserve">Sed quare uincat ueritatem ratio ſalſa, non erit alienum exponere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17907" xml:space="preserve">Quod enim antiqui inſumentes
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              Jaborem, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17908" xml:space="preserve">induſtriam probare contendebant artibus, id nunc coloribus & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17909" xml:space="preserve">eorum eleganti ſpecie
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              conſequuntur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17910" xml:space="preserve">quam ſubtilitas artificis adijciebat operibus auctoritatem, nunc dominicus ſum-
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.275-01" xlink:href="note-514.01.275-01a" xml:space="preserve">10</note>
              ptus efficit, ne deſideretur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17911" xml:space="preserve">Quis enim antiquorum non uti medicamento minio parce uidetur uſus
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              eſſe? </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17912" xml:space="preserve">At nunc paſsim plerunque toti parietes inducuntur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17913" xml:space="preserve">Accedit huc chryſocolla, oſtrum, Arme-
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              nium. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17914" xml:space="preserve">Hæc uero cum inducuntur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17915" xml:space="preserve">ſi non ab arte ſint poſita, fulgentes tamen oculorum reddunt
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              uiſus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17916" xml:space="preserve">ideo quòd precioſa ſunt legibus excipiuntur, uta domino non a redemptore repreſenten-
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              tur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17917" xml:space="preserve">Quæ commonefacere potui, ut ab errore diſcedatur in opere tectorio ſatis expoſui: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17918" xml:space="preserve">Nunc de ap-
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              parationibus, ut ſuccurrere potuerint, dicam; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17919" xml:space="preserve">& </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17920" xml:space="preserve">primum: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17921" xml:space="preserve">quoniam de calce initio eſt dictum, nunc
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              de marmore dicendum reſtat.</s>
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s17923" xml:space="preserve">Quid in diuerſis conclauibus pingendum ſit, pro rei dignitate, partim ſuperiori capite, partim hoc monemur
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              a Vitr. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17924" xml:space="preserve">Ex picturæ diffinitione argumentatur id quod decet, poſtea liberè reprehendit, qui a uera antiquorum
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              pictorum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17925" xml:space="preserve">recta ratione diſceſſere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17926" xml:space="preserve">qua in re acriter inuehitur in id picturæ genus, quod nostri Grotteſcam
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              uocant, ut pote quæ resſit, ut nullo modo ſtare poſſit. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17927" xml:space="preserve">nam cum pictura ſit rerum, quæſunt, uel quæ eſſe poſſunt
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              imitatio, qui fiet, ut rectè factum iudicemus quod in eo genere tentatur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17928" xml:space="preserve">efficitur? </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17929" xml:space="preserve">animalia ſcilicet ædes fe-
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              rentia, cannas, arundinesq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17930" xml:space="preserve">colummas ſignificantes, monſtrorum articuli, naturarum dißimilitudines, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17931" xml:space="preserve">
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              mariorum generum mixtiones, quas fieri minimè natura patitur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17932" xml:space="preserve">Certè quemadmodum fantaſia confuſæ in
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              ſomnis rerum imagines nobis affert, ſæpeq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17933" xml:space="preserve">res natura diſſimiles ſpectris aggregari ſolet, ita recte poſſu-
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              mus dicere ab eo picturæ genere fieri, quod picturæ ſomnium rectè nominare poſſumus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17934" xml:space="preserve">Simile quid in dicendi
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              arte, uel loquendi peritia uidere ſolemus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17935" xml:space="preserve">Nam dialecticus rationi nititur ſatisfacere, orator ſenſibus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17936" xml:space="preserve">
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              rationi, poeta aliquanto magis ſenſui, quam rationi, Sophiſta uero monſtra parit, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17937" xml:space="preserve">huiuſinodi, qualia nobis
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              phantaſia ſolet afferre, cum ſenſus a ſomno opprimuntur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17938" xml:space="preserve">Quam uero commendandus ſit Sophiſta dicant ij
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              qui diſcrimen inter uerum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17939" xml:space="preserve">falſum, inter uerum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17940" xml:space="preserve">ueriſimile ponere poſſunt. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17941" xml:space="preserve">Certe fucus colorum & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17942" xml:space="preserve">la-
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                <note position="left" xlink:label="note-514.01.275-03" xlink:href="note-514.01.275-03a" xml:space="preserve">30</note>
              boris effugium, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17943" xml:space="preserve">ueræ artis ignorantia eo deduxit pictores, ut uanæ oblectationi inani re ſatisfaciant.
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              <s xml:id="echoid-s17944" xml:space="preserve">Credo etiam ego primum huiuſmodi genus, quòd nullius est laboris, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17945" xml:space="preserve">aliquæ uoluptatis in hypogeis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17946" xml:space="preserve">cry-
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              ptſis, quas grottas, unde nomen habent, inuentum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17947" xml:space="preserve">uerè digna loco pictura, in qua colorum præstantia po-
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              tius, quam artificis manus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17948" xml:space="preserve">ingenium commendatur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17949" xml:space="preserve">Excuſant ſe pictores artificioſamq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17950" xml:space="preserve">rem dicunt, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17951" xml:space="preserve">
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              quaſi hieroglyficam, ſignis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17952" xml:space="preserve">monumentis præclaram, eam picturæ ſpeciem uolunt eſſe, neque omnibus datum
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              eſſe dicunt, poſſe aptè, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17953" xml:space="preserve">concinne eam efficere, ut picturæ ſubtilitas, partium reſponſus, ſignificationum uis
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              inuentionum pulcbritudo, lineamentorum tractus, concinnitas inde ſpectabilis habeatur; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17954" xml:space="preserve">ſed hæc quam uere
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              eos excuſent, alij uideant, ſed nos ad res, non ad ſomnia intendamus. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17955" xml:space="preserve">Pictura quemadmodum cætera, quæ
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              ab homin ibus, hoc eſt ab ratione utentibus fieri ſolent, propoſitum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17956" xml:space="preserve">intentionem habeat aliquid imitandi,
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              & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17957" xml:space="preserve">repreſentandi, ad id propoſitum omnis compoſitio est referenda, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17958" xml:space="preserve">quemadmodum poetæ fabulis prodeſſe
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              hominibus debent, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17959" xml:space="preserve">muſica ſunm ad effectum aliquem finem habere. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17960" xml:space="preserve">Ita quæ pictura imitamur, non ſolum
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              oculis, ſed animo aliquid utilitatis afferre oportet. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17961" xml:space="preserve">cumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17962" xml:space="preserve">pictura, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17963" xml:space="preserve">poetica uaria ſint pro rerum qualitate,
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              quæ triplici genere continentur, ſummo, medio, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17964" xml:space="preserve">infimo, ita quæ maiestatem habent publicis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17965" xml:space="preserve">præſtan-
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              tißimorum operibus adhibebuntur, unde megalographia deducta eſt, quæ uero mediocribus conueniunt, ſuis
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              locis ponantur, quemadmodum infima docet Vitrunius ſuis locis pingenda. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17966" xml:space="preserve">Poſt dignitatis, uenuſtatisq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17967" xml:space="preserve">conſide-
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              rationem ars adhibenda es̃t, qua rerum formas ſuis numeris abſolutas, certosq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17968" xml:space="preserve">corporum fines, figuramus,
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              ſymmetrias, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17969" xml:space="preserve">proportiones partium inter ſe, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17970" xml:space="preserve">ad ccrpus relatas obſeruamus: </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17971" xml:space="preserve">item actus, geſtusq́;</s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17972" xml:space="preserve">, & </s>
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              uiuacitatem repreſentare oportet, affectus demum, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17974" xml:space="preserve">mores, quod paucorum eſt, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17975" xml:space="preserve">nostris temporibus uix
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              conſideratur, in quo artis perfec̃tio eſt collocata, fines corporum ita terminare ut interminati uideantur, quiq́;
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              </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17976" xml:space="preserve">ſint tam leniter, leuiterq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17977" xml:space="preserve">ducti, ut etiam intelligatur, quod non cernitur, putetq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17978" xml:space="preserve">oculus ſe uidere, quod non
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              uideat (fumatam ſpeciem iſtam nostri dicunt.) </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17979" xml:space="preserve">ita enim corporum quorundam ſuperficiem natura terminauit,
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              ut lineæ, finesq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17980" xml:space="preserve">eorum tenui quadam ratione ductæ uideantur ſuauem, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17981" xml:space="preserve">dulcem, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17982" xml:space="preserve">teneram fugam nostri
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              dicerent in horizonte, ac terminatione uiſus, quemadmodum in planis, quæ optice artis diligentia, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17983" xml:space="preserve">ſubtili-
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              tate pinguntur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17984" xml:space="preserve">Idq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17985" xml:space="preserve">quod aio eſſe, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17986" xml:space="preserve">non eſſe uidetur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17987" xml:space="preserve">maximo iudicio, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17988" xml:space="preserve">experientia perficitur, igno-
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              rantes oblectat, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17989" xml:space="preserve">ſciemes mirari facit, præterea colores, eorumq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17990" xml:space="preserve">compcſitiones ſubtiles, efficacesq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17991" xml:space="preserve">uirorũ
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              imitationes, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17992" xml:space="preserve">ſplendores, teneritudinemq́; </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17993" xml:space="preserve">membrorum muliebrium & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17994" xml:space="preserve">effectam, ſed parum expreſſam mu-
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              ſculorum partitionem carne ita rectè ueſtitam, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17995" xml:space="preserve">tectam, ut ſubeſſe ſentiantur muſculi, qui in uirili cor-
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              pore, ita ſub pannis, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17996" xml:space="preserve">ueſtibus corpus eſſe intelligatur, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17997" xml:space="preserve">nuditatem in ueſtitu oſtendamus, flexus, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17998" xml:space="preserve">ſtriæ
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              ſuauiter ducantur nihil effic ientes, quod uenustate careat, & </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s17999" xml:space="preserve">rem non repreſentet ut est, proxima uel remota,
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              directa uel abſcedens, alta uel depreſſa, uiſus demum conueniens ratio habeatur. </s>
              <s xml:id="echoid-s18000" xml:space="preserve">Sed mens nostra non est
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              hoc loco diffuſius hæc pertractare, neque de alijs orn amentis agere, cuiuſmodi ſunt obeliſci, pyramides, ſepul-</s>
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