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 357
open Window; and a Screen in-;ftead of a Door. From all which Premifes I infer, that if Things be practicable, andhave any Bignefs, they ought to be exprejfed in the Little, and, as Imay fay, even to a Thread. The Diftance makes them natural,if well painted, and the Diminution be exactly obferved… … 3iap. i i Of Lights and Shades. 149 CHAP. XXI. Of the different Colouring in great and fmall Pieces. HIS Proportion is a Confequence of the preceding ; and, tobe intelligible, I fhall (hew my Thoughts by the following Ex-ample in Plate XLVI.There is a Gallery 12 Feet high and 25. Feet long, divided…
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