Isi ' another Piece 5 where ri//^;^ reprefents tlie Boif of I, 
'€hr0 cmkd to the Grave ^ M, de champ4gmy the Eider, 
obfeves the dexterity oftheMafter in ordering the Coloors aad 
the Light. To make the Leggs of the Pidure (which firft pre-^ 
fentth€m{elves)toftatldout, he hath wrapped them about with 
a very white linnen Iheet, and hath donhtd Ntcoiemm, viho 
holds them, with a veiyvivid and very ckar:^L^^^^ On the 
contrary 5 to fink the reft of the Body , heh^th fo taken the 
Li^htof the Pidare , that the Shadow oi lofej^hoi Jnmatha,, 
who helps to fupport the Leggs 5 falls on its head and Shoulders ^ 
which alfo contributes to imprefs on the Body the image of: 
Death. The Order of the Colours is alfo yery remarkabie ia 
the cioaths. For betwixt th^ (Sretn^habit oi lefefh oi Arma- 
theay and the Blew Mantle of the Blefled Virgin, is the yellow 
habir<^f Magdalen > wherein what is brown and dusky ^ -is tem- 
pered, and borrows ^of the diiferent colours ; about it that 
the Eye may pafs by degrees from one of thefe colours to the 
other. Arid becaufethe Sleeve cf M^^i^-f^^^ , W^^^ is of a 
bright yellow , is neer the habit of Ntcodcmm ^ which is alfo 
of a lively Colour 5 the Artift , to hipder that thofe. two vivid 
colours may not entrench on one another, hath turn'd op - 
codemus^s Sleeve agaiftft the yellow ^ fd tliat fro^ the Shadow 
of one of thefe colours one pafFeth to the foadovvof the otheh 
The Art of the Pidure,' fpbken of inthe)^^^ Conferenceg 
is no lefs remarkable. In this Piece , done by P, Feronefe, is 
feen a Woman ^ whofe Carnation colour is fo ft e/h and bnghr^ 
that it dazleth the Eyes : M. ^w^examining,what may cauft 
this beauty, obferyeth, that it proceeds in part from hence^ 
that the Mafter hath ingenioiifly drawn hefore this Woman a 
Child cloathed in brown 5 behind htx, a man in blacky and 
on her fide ^ a Negro whomaketh an admirable Concert with 
the gr^at lufter and fplendor of that Carnation, 
The two laft Conferences 5 treating of twopieceso^^ M, Pi?^/- 
5 doe furnilli among othei things , very elegant Examples 
of ^if&r^nt Charadlers futing different per fons. This Mafter 
having to reprefcnt many perions gathering Maena^ gives to 
them all different poftures, becomming their humor ^ on the 
fore part of the Piiture there are two youths ^ who following 
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