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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... is excited by the sight of colours , -in fact , without at all understanding the nature of the subject they , with so much complacency , suppose themselves to have fully elucidated . Others have added new testimony to the truth of the.
... is excited by the sight of colours , -in fact , without at all understanding the nature of the subject they , with so much complacency , suppose themselves to have fully elucidated . Others have added new testimony to the truth of the.
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... fact belong to the " dark ages , " before Galileo , Newton , Bacon , Cuvier had said " let light be ; " and should be placed on our shelves beside Lilly's Astrology and Moore's almanacks . That they should have found recognition at all ...
... fact belong to the " dark ages , " before Galileo , Newton , Bacon , Cuvier had said " let light be ; " and should be placed on our shelves beside Lilly's Astrology and Moore's almanacks . That they should have found recognition at all ...
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... fact , have been the two centres to which all my researches during ten years have converged . In proportion as they are developed , those who read them will be enabled to see how much time and labour they have cost me , and I may ...
... fact , have been the two centres to which all my researches during ten years have converged . In proportion as they are developed , those who read them will be enabled to see how much time and labour they have cost me , and I may ...
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... facts . Then , in reflecting on the relations these facts have together , in seek- ing the principle of which they are the consequences , I have been led to the discovery of the one which I have named the law of simultaneous contrast of ...
... facts . Then , in reflecting on the relations these facts have together , in seek- ing the principle of which they are the consequences , I have been led to the discovery of the one which I have named the law of simultaneous contrast of ...
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... facts and principles by which this subject is developed are necessarily scattered over a wide space , it is thought that the reader's progress will be greatly facilitated if he be presented with a summary of them , so as to afford a ...
... facts and principles by which this subject is developed are necessarily scattered over a wide space , it is thought that the reader's progress will be greatly facilitated if he be presented with a summary of them , so as to afford a ...
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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