American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 100
th the style. The effect was highly decorative and very little pictorial. The figures or othersubjects, strongly outlined in every part by the leads which held them together, were easily distinguishable from a great distance;overspread with subdued color byshaded parts; and compound tintsthe… … Fig. 3. — Portrait of Henride Mez. Chartres, Thir-teenth Century. the dark shading was softened andthe radiation of light from the un-were gained, in the same way, bycolors. No attempt was made atsion. The limitations of the artsought with transmitted light to pro-light, nor to disguise the…
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