Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures, tr. and abridged by R. WhiteLongman & Company, 1845 - 338 pages |
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... pencil . In other respects , too , the very copious and minute style of the Author affords considerable room for retrenchment . By selecting , therefore , a few only of the descriptions of the pictures as examples , and by otherwise con ...
... pencil . In other respects , too , the very copious and minute style of the Author affords considerable room for retrenchment . By selecting , therefore , a few only of the descriptions of the pictures as examples , and by otherwise con ...
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... pencil , by a passion which at first knew no bounds , and which so carried me away as to close my eyes to their defects . To me all pictures appeared to be good , however indif- ferent they were in reality ! If I could discover a point ...
... pencil , by a passion which at first knew no bounds , and which so carried me away as to close my eyes to their defects . To me all pictures appeared to be good , however indif- ferent they were in reality ! If I could discover a point ...
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... pencil , in pro- portion as its real and intrinsic merit ought to make it commendable . But as an impartial friend of all that is beautiful in art , I will say , and repeat without ceasing , that without the science of colour- ing ...
... pencil , in pro- portion as its real and intrinsic merit ought to make it commendable . But as an impartial friend of all that is beautiful in art , I will say , and repeat without ceasing , that without the science of colour- ing ...
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... pencil , renders black itself almost white on the points of incidence perpendicular to the luminous rays ! It is the perfect understanding of this interesting principle which renders the works of Rubens , and of his best scholars , so ...
... pencil , renders black itself almost white on the points of incidence perpendicular to the luminous rays ! It is the perfect understanding of this interesting principle which renders the works of Rubens , and of his best scholars , so ...
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... pencil must come from his head . All with him becomes creation in the execution . He cannot efface his traces like those of the crayon , recommencing twenty times , in order to succeed once . The least error may spoil his work ; every ...
... pencil must come from his head . All with him becomes creation in the execution . He cannot efface his traces like those of the crayon , recommencing twenty times , in order to succeed once . The least error may spoil his work ; every ...
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