Art recreations : being a complete guide to pencil drawing, oil painting ... moss work, papier mache...wax work, shell work...enamel painting, etc. (1871)
Urbino, L. B. (Levina Buoncuore), d. 1888, Day, Henry · Boston : J.E. Tilton · leaf 55
FOLIAGE. When a tree is in the foreground the leaves are dis-tinctly seen ; we can readily distinguish the form, and thelight and shade is in strong contrast; it we move our 48 PRAWING. position, and make the same tree appear in the middledistance, we can recognize the same tree, but the light and… … shades are not so strong ; if we again remove our position, DRAWING. 49 and cause the same tree to be in tlie extreme distance, tlieatmospheric perspective softens the general tone, andmakes it uniform. Linear perspective gives us the causeof the diminution of size, but in addition to that we have…
Handicraft -- 19th century · Decoration and ornament · Decorative arts
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