Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures, tr. and abridged by R. WhiteLongman & Company, 1845 - 338 pages |
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... success to landscape , scenes of common life , and other sub- jects of that nature , and manifest their contempt for the latter , although their works are the orna- ment of cabinets and galleries , by designating them all under the ...
... success to landscape , scenes of common life , and other sub- jects of that nature , and manifest their contempt for the latter , although their works are the orna- ment of cabinets and galleries , by designating them all under the ...
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... success in it captivates the mind . In this the artist , without other aid than the study of Nature , varied as she is to infinity , must , if he wish his picture to be a good representation as to colour , on which depends the soul of ...
... success in it captivates the mind . In this the artist , without other aid than the study of Nature , varied as she is to infinity , must , if he wish his picture to be a good representation as to colour , on which depends the soul of ...
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... success as to enchant even Rubens him- self . Such also is that called flowery , which de- lights us in certain interiors of Adrian Ostade , and which charms in the works of Barroccio . I have said above that the general tone of the ...
... success as to enchant even Rubens him- self . Such also is that called flowery , which de- lights us in certain interiors of Adrian Ostade , and which charms in the works of Barroccio . I have said above that the general tone of the ...
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... success of this part of colour depends very much upon the clear - obscure , which , in order to contribute thereto , ought to present only large masses of light and shadow , united by delicate pas- sages , which produce a whole well ...
... success of this part of colour depends very much upon the clear - obscure , which , in order to contribute thereto , ought to present only large masses of light and shadow , united by delicate pas- sages , which produce a whole well ...
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... success depends scarcely less upon the intelligent use of weak colours against strong , and strong ones against weak , than on the good choice of local colours , no one of which ought to produce a more marked effect than is required by ...
... success depends scarcely less upon the intelligent use of weak colours against strong , and strong ones against weak , than on the good choice of local colours , no one of which ought to produce a more marked effect than is required by ...
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