< A Treatise on Painting
Chap. CLXX.—Of the Variety of Faces.
The countenances of your figures should be expressive of their different situations: men at work, at rest, weeping, laughing, crying out, in fear, or joy, and the like. The attitudes also, and all the members, ought to correspond with the sentiment expressed in the faces.
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