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A treatise on painting (1835)

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519, Rigaud, J. F. (John Francis), 1742-1810, Brown, John William · London : J.B. Nichols and Son ... · leaf 318

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r which is light. Chap. CCCXLIII.—r/^e Brilliancy of a Land-scape. The vivacity and brightness of colours in a land-scape will never bear any comparison with a land-scape in nature when illumined by the sun, unlessthe picture be placed so as to receive the samelight from the sun itself. 210… … apparent distance of one mile, and by the side ofit a real one be perceived at the true distance ofone mile also; which objects are so disposed, thatthe pannel, or picture, A C, intersects the p)Ta-midical rays with the same opening of angles; yetthese two objects will never appear of the samesize,…

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