A Treatise on Art in Three Parts: Consisting of Essays on the Education of the Eye, Practical Hints on Composition, and Light and ShadeFrank V. Chambers, 1913 - 100 من الصفحات |
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... Painting are introduced with little more than an enumeration of their component parts , I ought to apologize , in the first instance , for thus attempting to convey any information which can be carried into practical usefulness in so ...
... Painting are introduced with little more than an enumeration of their component parts , I ought to apologize , in the first instance , for thus attempting to convey any information which can be carried into practical usefulness in so ...
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... painter ; to be that to any tolerable degree will require more time than a young gentleman can spare from his other improvements of greater moment ; but so much insight into perspective and skill in drawing as will enable him to ...
... painter ; to be that to any tolerable degree will require more time than a young gentleman can spare from his other improvements of greater moment ; but so much insight into perspective and skill in drawing as will enable him to ...
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... painting , and particularly to that branch of it which was employed in the decoration of the theater , where landscapes were prinicpally introduced , and which would have looked unnatural and horrid if the size of the objects had not ...
... painting , and particularly to that branch of it which was employed in the decoration of the theater , where landscapes were prinicpally introduced , and which would have looked unnatural and horrid if the size of the objects had not ...
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... painting we are obliged to delineate everything upon a flat surface , yet , properly speaking , the line which cuts through these rays at equal dis- tance from the eye is circular . We have seen also that all objects diminish in size ...
... painting we are obliged to delineate everything upon a flat surface , yet , properly speaking , the line which cuts through these rays at equal dis- tance from the eye is circular . We have seen also that all objects diminish in size ...
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... painting , the whole being a flat surface , we change our position in vain . We have also seen that all horizontal surfaces of objects diminish in breadth as they approach the horizontal line , and regain their true width when they ...
... painting , the whole being a flat surface , we change our position in vain . We have also seen that all horizontal surfaces of objects diminish in breadth as they approach the horizontal line , and regain their true width when they ...
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acquired aërial perspective Agatharchus agreeable appearance arrangement artist assist background beauty blue breadth of effect breadth of light Bridgewater Treatise camera obscura carried character chiaro oscuro circular color combination composition convey Corregio Cuyp diminished diminution distance Doctor Johnson drawing effect of light enables endeavored examination example figures foreground give greatest half-light half-tint hand harmony Heliodorus horizontal line images imagination inventions JOHN BURNET Leonardo da Vinci light and shade look Lystra Masaccio mass of light masters means Michael Angelo middle-tint mind mode Nature objects observe outline painter painting Paul Veronese perceive picture placed PLATE III-Fig Plate VII point of sight portion possess principal light principles produced Raffaelle rays recede regularity remarks Rembrandt rendered representation retina Reynolds Rubens says School of Athens sensations simplicity space spectator strong dark student thereby Tintoretto tints Titian truth variety vitreous humor whole
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الصفحة 48 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
الصفحة 2 - I do not mean that I would have your son a perfect painter ; to be that to any tolerable degree, will require more time than a young gentleman can spare from his other improvements of greater moment; but so much insight into perspective, and skill in drawing, as will enable him to represent tolerably on paper any thing he sees, except faces, may, I think, be got in a little time...
الصفحة 14 - ... must have, with his powers of colouring; a circumstance which was not likely to enter into the mind of an Italian painter, who probably would have been afraid of the linen's hurting the colouring of the flesh, and have kept it down of a low tint. And the truth is, that none but great colourists can venture to paint pure white linen near flesh; but such know the advantage of it...
الصفحة 35 - Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason.
الصفحة 29 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 15 - ... lively, and what is called a masterly, handling of the chalk or pencil, are, it must be confessed, captivating qualities to young minds, and become of course the objects of their ambition. They endeavour to imitate these dazzling excellencies, which they will find no great labour in attaining.
الصفحة 1 - When he can write well and quick, I think it may be convenient not only to continue the exercise of his hand in writing, but also to improve the use of it farther in drawing, a thing very useful to a gentleman...
الصفحة 27 - Angelo's works have a strong, peculiar, and marked character : they seem to proceed from his own mind entirely, and that mind so rich and abundant, that he never needed, or seemed to disdain, to look abroad for foreign help. Raffaelle's materials are generally borrowed, though the noble structure is his own.
الصفحة 4 - Rubens, who extracted his principles from their works, admitted many subordinate lights. The same rules, which have been given in regard to the regulation of groups of figures, must be observed in regard to the grouping of lights ; that there shall be a superiority of one over the rest, that they shall be separated, and varied in their shapes, and that there should be at least three lights : the secondary lights ought, for the sake of harmony and union, to be of nearly equal brightness, though not...