The art of painting, in all its branches : methodically demonstrated by discourses and plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters, and their perfections and oversights laid open (1738)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Fritsch, John Frederick · London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Brotherton ... [and 17 others] · leaf 239
uld ufe other Colours, as Green or Red, we may do fojprovided, as before, we give them fuch a proper back Ground as willfling them off, with refpeCf to their Diftance; for it muft be remark-]ed, that, altho they are diftant, yet there is no Neceflity for giving!them faint or broken Colours: Tis a… … Chap. 6. Of Colouring. 177 Ranks, (the ftrong ones forward, and the weaker, in Degrees of Dis-tance, according to their Natures) only to (hew the Method of placingthem ; in a Word, Whether they are to approach, becaufe of their na-tural Strength, or to retire by reafon of their natural Weaknefs.…
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