A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 575
om below. The attempt neverwholly succeeded. To begin with, arciiitecturetiuis painted in perspective can look riglit onlywhen seen from one .single place in tiie room, or,as a critic has said, can only ajipcar right toone man with one eye in one ]ihice. Again, the lunnan figure, wlien violently… … MlIK.\L PAI.NTi.NG: l:ilH AND 13th Cextiries: ChikchOF S. Francis Assisi; Section showixo Onk BayOF Upper and of Lower Church. the chin and the point of the nose. Some ofthe most skilful m;isters avoided these difficul-ties by being illogical and violating truth. Man-tegna and Jlelozzo da Forli,…
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