COMPOSITION. 
fpace which By lines, notes, ke. are totake up. See Plate Aaa curves become more violent with a mixture of angles 
si es Oem Wg 
he compofing-ltick ordinarily contains feven or eight 
lines of a middle-fized letter; thefe, when fet, are taken out, 
by help of a thin flip of brafs, termed a rule, and difpofed 
in thé galley ; and others compofed, till a page be formed. 
Tke page being compofed, is tied. up, and fet by; and 
the reft of the pages of the fheet prepared in the fame 
manner: when done, they are carried to the impofing or 
correGting-ftone; there ranged in order, and difpofed in a 
chafe, or iron- frame, fitted with wooden’ furniture; then, 
the quoins — ftruck in, it is carried to the prefs to be 
Com 
as ~ anal from 
which it was moft proba ably received, with many other ae 
by the Italian artis at ther evival of learsi ing. Alth 
in its moft fim ple fenfe it is on fynthefis, or Pe aes 
rehends the 
t; ou 
fording ana cide choice of beautiful Salhi according to 
the fubje&, whether there be many figures or one only ; the 
fentiment mult be juft and ftriki ing $ acosidine to the rule 
s¢ feel yourfelf if you would make others feel ;’? this muft 
pervade every part of the character of the figures ; their. 
action or paflion exprefled to the points of ie fingers and 
toes as well as in the véry folds of their dr 
.. The order of compofition contains the fae heroic, and 
hiftoric.. The divine contains all fublime and terrific fub- 
jeéts of divinities, angels, departed fouls, and infernal mi- 
nifters, The heroic, according to the ancients, confilts of 
thofe mortals, faid to have one mortal and one immortal pa- 
rent. e hiftoric eclafs contains the whole ferizes of hu- 
~man life, in which however the moft exalted perfons and 
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circumftances are always to be preferre 
e arrangement mu dr amatic, reprefenting an 
aétion ; becaufe fentiment bags affects the countenance of 
the figure prior to action, and words cannot be seo ahaa by 
mute figures; therefore the (eae and pafiions muft be 
demonttrated iy action, in whic the. gues partake, 
uifhed place, 
e, whilft Force, Strengt ;and Vulcan are gra- 
dually fio, although, Ned be in the fame Sroup. an 
hero or heroine of the fu be not entwine th 
group with other figures, he or fhe will ftill be dilingoithed 
by a preferable fituation to thofe in which the inferior per-- 
fons are place ; this rule i is obferved in all the beft pictures 
of the 
e more figures introduced t 
ely 
- fufficient to tell the ftory, and for this reafon ‘that the ex- 
preffion may be the ftronger, ‘being lefs divi 
Outline. ~The e general outlines of a eapontoh, whether 
e or mo é groups, fhould be agreeable to the 
oduc ed by. a fucceffion of curves of different 
ch Divinities, 
the Judgment of Paris, kee In the antique baflo-relievos, 
jets of great exertion, fuch asthe War of the Giants, 
"Battles of the Lapithe and Centaurs, the Athenians 
and Perfians. See Stuart’s Athens, vol. iii. Mufeum 
Pium Clementinum. Baffo-relievos. In the fine antique 
groups, as the Laocoon, Niobe ard her Daughter, Cupid 
and. Pfyche, and the Fauns and Nymphs, the lines are in- 
catenated (chained) as it were linked into each other: in 
whatever view they are feer. 
“Light and Shadow, Sculpture is a ce painting, feen 
riety and britliance 
e figure be inverted, 
bottoms of the feet will have the boceet lights, bri will 
gradually diminifh as they approach the head ; confe- 
quently all thofe parts which are fhadowed, when ri erie 
is upright, will be lightened in this pofition, and wice verfa- 
It mutt be remembered that, as pee human figure partakes of 
chu forms, fo 
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os 
o 
& 
moft eee which.is inherent in the ae of thin ngsy 
which pervades all creation, and is more particularly evi- 
dent in mufical proportion of 3ds, 5ths, and 8ths, with their 
. oo and relative quantities 
muit however obferve, that the rules for ee 
like all Pes rules laid down. for liberal art, will on ly a 
f 
fubtle ‘inveltigation and ee atio 
mult -be done by fympathy a beau tifal Yeprefentation 5 
rules may be compared to the fc 
We mutt therefore 
are alfo various as they are endl 
can furnifh ourfel 
op Sicha sae obferving the expreffion o 
m, women, and c 
Hele  Eaees, Ge forms and as of their limbs, their dra~ 
peries, and the manner in which the gag of the folds 
obfcures or indicates the bodies orlimbs, in the grouping of — 
gures ; a entwining of the limbs fala be carefully ob- 
ferved, and the planes in which the different parts of the 
bodies and ree are directe 
t 
as) 
compofition would be complete or interefting without them, 
fo when thefe vital bray a great care fhould — 
be 
