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But I find it is a rule that the second is reduced to four-fifths the size of the first when it is twenty braccia distant from it.

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

Then proceed in the same way with a second and a third tree, at distances of a hundred braccia from each other.

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

About half a braccia high, faint and shadowy in the pale tint he had used, he saw her there victim rather than Goddess.

Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett Maurice Hewlett 1892

I have never spoken to her more than once in the garden, or at a less distance than ten braccia -- except when I touched her hand.

The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

At the head Pope Nicolas V. had begun to rebuild the tribune; the walls were already three braccia above the ground when he died.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

Marfisa trova Bradamante che more fra le sue braccia.

Diversions in Sicily Henry Festing Jones 1889

The Operai (29) of Santa Maria del Fiore possessed a piece of marble nine braccia high, which had been brought from Carrara by an artist (30) who was not so wise as he ought to have been, as it appeared.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

And to give some idea of it, I say briefly that this tomb was to have had four faces, two of eighteen braccia, that served for the flanks, so that it was to be a square and a half in plan.

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

Among other things that I can prove, two pieces, of four braccia and a half each, on the Ripa were stolen from me by

Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889

In Chapter CCCI he shows us how to draw a figure twenty-four braccia high upon a wall twelve braccia high.

The Theory and Practice of Perspective 1876