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Art: its laws, and the reasons for them (1871)

Long, Samuel P · Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham · leaf 117

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David and his followers were right. Poussin was in allsave his mythological delineations too ideal, the others notenough so; the true course lay between the ideality of theone and the actuality of the other, and it was understood byRaphael, when he invested The Gardening Girl and TheFornarina with… … Titians model for light and shade. ESSAY VI. CHIARO-OSCURO. CHIARO-OSCURO is the technic term employed to desig-nate the mysterious effects of Hght and dark in a picture.In the order of enumeration it is the fourth of the constitu-ent parts of the art, and the second of its mechanical processes. If…

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