Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 169
em and are seizedwith religious terror, for in the place where they hadjust heard his voice and broken bread with him, theysee a supernatural light that has replaced the van-ished God. The painter who has imitated the conflict of dayand night has still to imitate the presence of air andthe depths… … THE SUPPER AT KMMAUS. BY RKMBRANnT. from the eye, undergo a perceptible diminution, andat a great distance are neither light nor shadow, theyvanish in the tone of the air. Leonardo da Vinci has PAINTING. H3 proved, by a geometrical figure, that this diminutioncan be measured. We may, moreover,…
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