310 PHYSICAL EXPRESSION. 



" By expression I mean the art of judiciously dis- 

 covering the affections, by every sort of external 

 signs. The union of the Soul with the body is of 

 such a nature, that the emotion of the one, cannot 

 happen without exciting a correspondent motion in 

 the other. As the Painter ought therefore to repre- 

 sent his figures in action, he ought likewise to 

 express in their appearance and in everything else, 

 that situation and those emotions which the soul 

 would produce in the body if it were really found 



Fig. 44. Weeping. 



in that state ; but since among these emotions, 

 enter more or less, some which are forced, and 

 others which are natural, some noble, and others 

 ordinary, and of a thousand other manners ; it 

 depends therefore upon the Taste of the Painter, to 

 know how to choose those which produce Beauty ; 

 and likewise to know how to produce it with due 

 precision" (vol. i. p. 117). 



