A Classified Synopsis of the Principal Painters of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, Their Scholars, Imitators, and Analogists: Including an Account of Some of the Early German Masters, Connected with Those of Flanders and HollandH.G. Bohn, 1855 - 416 pages |
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Page xi
... light and shade , and indeed all the mechanical parts of the art , as well as in any school whatever . The same skill which is practised by Rubens and Titian in their large works , is here exhibited , though on a smaller scale ...
... light and shade , and indeed all the mechanical parts of the art , as well as in any school whatever . The same skill which is practised by Rubens and Titian in their large works , is here exhibited , though on a smaller scale ...
Page xvii
... light which each object receives in a picture , from its proximity to , or distance from , the spectator . It is expressed by a degradation of tone , proportioned to the quantity and quality of the intermediate air that separates the ...
... light which each object receives in a picture , from its proximity to , or distance from , the spectator . It is expressed by a degradation of tone , proportioned to the quantity and quality of the intermediate air that separates the ...
Page xviii
... light . ALLEGORY . This term , as relative to the art , is a mode of communicating certain abstract ideas by the aid of symbolical figures , and is most frequently employed in fabulous or mythological representations . It is ...
... light . ALLEGORY . This term , as relative to the art , is a mode of communicating certain abstract ideas by the aid of symbolical figures , and is most frequently employed in fabulous or mythological representations . It is ...
Page xx
... light and shadow , breadth conveys a certain idea of greatness , which is in direct opposition to the frivolous and the mean . Breadth , therefore , as it relates to art , partakes of the simple and the grand , and may be said to belong ...
... light and shadow , breadth conveys a certain idea of greatness , which is in direct opposition to the frivolous and the mean . Breadth , therefore , as it relates to art , partakes of the simple and the grand , and may be said to belong ...
Page xxi
... light . In order to render this effect of the chiaroscuro more intelligible , it may be well to consider it as acting on an individual ob- ject . When the light , issuing from a given point , expands itself over a particular body , an ...
... light . In order to render this effect of the chiaroscuro more intelligible , it may be well to consider it as acting on an individual ob- ject . When the light , issuing from a given point , expands itself over a particular body , an ...
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