The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts: Including Painting, Interior Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Coloured Glazing, Paper-staining, Calico-printing, Letterpress Printing, Map-colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, EtcHenry G. Bohn, 1860 - 465 pages |
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... arranged conformably to contrast 5th Case . View of various colours , more or less well assorted , seen through the medium of a feebly coloured glass 1st Kind . - Harmonies of analogous colours 2nd Kind . - Harmonies of contrasts . § 4 ...
... arranged conformably to contrast 5th Case . View of various colours , more or less well assorted , seen through the medium of a feebly coloured glass 1st Kind . - Harmonies of analogous colours 2nd Kind . - Harmonies of contrasts . § 4 ...
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... Arrangement of coloured objects of limited extent • 219 SECTION I. Employment of colours in architecture - 220 CHAPTER I. On the employment of colours in Egyptian architecture 221 CHAPTER II . On the employment of colours in Greek ...
... Arrangement of coloured objects of limited extent • 219 SECTION I. Employment of colours in architecture - 220 CHAPTER I. On the employment of colours in Egyptian architecture 221 CHAPTER II . On the employment of colours in Greek ...
Page xxvii
... arrangement and a sequence in which these facts and principles must of necessity be placed . But it may be convenient to anticipate some of them ; to bring them nearer together , by which their mutual connexion and reciprocal influence ...
... arrangement and a sequence in which these facts and principles must of necessity be placed . But it may be convenient to anticipate some of them ; to bring them nearer together , by which their mutual connexion and reciprocal influence ...
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... arranged in a certain order , like those of the rainbow . These colours are six in number : three of which are simple ; and three which are compound , resulting from the mixture of the simple colours in pairs . Blue , Red , and Yellow ...
... arranged in a certain order , like those of the rainbow . These colours are six in number : three of which are simple ; and three which are compound , resulting from the mixture of the simple colours in pairs . Blue , Red , and Yellow ...
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... arrangement formed of one of these primaries and a binary of which that primary is an element , thus— Blue and Yellow harmonise better than Red and Orange , because the binary Orange contains Red as one of its elements . Red and Blue ...
... arrangement formed of one of these primaries and a binary of which that primary is an element , thus— Blue and Yellow harmonise better than Red and Orange , because the binary Orange contains Red as one of its elements . Red and Blue ...
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aerial perspective agreeable artist association assortment White band BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY binary assortments Black Blue and Violet border brilliant CHAPTER chiar'oscuro coloured light coloured materials coloured objects coloured rays complementary colour complexion contrast of colours contrast of tone different colours drapery employed example favourable flat tints flowers furniture glass GOBELINS TAPESTRY Green Green threads Greenish-Yellow hangings harmony of analogy harmony of contrast height of tone hues imitation incline Indigo inferior intensity Jasminum fruticans Laburnum latter law of contrast LAW OF SIMULTANEOUS less less Brown light tones Lilac luminous colours manner mixture neutralise normal tone observations Orange Orange colour Orange-Yellow painter painting paper patterns perceive picture Pink placed plants portion preceding present principle Prunus mahaleb pure colour rays falling reflected remark render represent result retina rose SAVONNERIE CARPETS scale simple colours simultaneous contrast sombre colours spectator stripes stuff surface tion trast Violet wainscoting White ground white light