American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 98
and very little pictorial. The figures or other subjects, strongly outlined in every part by the leads which held them together, were easily distinguishable from a great distance ; overspread with subdued color by shaded parts; and compound tints the juxtaposition of two primitive aerial… … 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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