Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 256
ce, it is generally advisable to make the dis-tance s T about as great as the diameter of your intendedpicture; and it should, for the most part, be more ratherthan less; but, as I have just stated, this is quite arbitrary.However, in this figure, as an approximation to a gener-ally advisable… … Fig. 2. Let the upright line a b, Fig. 2,, represent a pane ofglass placed where our picture is to be placed; but seen 216 PERSPECTIVE. at the side of it, edgeways; let s be tlie Sight-point; s tthe Station-line, \vhich, in this figure, observe, is in itstrue position, drawn out from the paper, not…
Art · Aesthetics
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