Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 138
extremitiesof this it is clear that landscape distances mustoften have found a place as well, and sometimesthe whole scene consisted of a picture of a camp,or of a landscape pure and simple. ... It isimpossible to overestimate the importance of theinvention of scene painting as the most… … 5 Il6 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART for the decoration of a theater could not haveanswered their purpose of illusion unless they hadbeen laid out, to some extent, according to therules of perspective. ... It cannot be doubtedthat the principles of foreshortening and the useof lines converging towards a…
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