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 261
ich are toodirty difagreeable to every one. This Management would alfo notbe juftirlable, could we not, as I have faid, perceive the Reafon of it;as in poor People, Countrymen, and fuch like, with old and tatteredCloaths, which wear not without foiling and gathering Duft. But this Obfervation is of… … the THE ART of PAINTING. BOOK V. Of Lights and Shades. CHAP. I. Of the different Lights of a Picture. JUDGE this Point to be one of the moft important inthe Jlrt of Painting; for without a thorough Know-ledge of it tis impoffible to make a good Piclure ;wherefore I (hall ihew all, that by Difcourfe…
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