Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 83
fans, opened in opposite directions, and cut bythe four sides of the frame and by the lines parallelto its sides. Remarkable union! the sight of our eye resemblesperfectly the sight of our reason, and optics is in na-ture what it is in philosophy. The difference in thepoint of sight changes the… … deceives or embraces the whole whose grandeur en-lightens it. Moreover, physical perspective, howeverrigorously the rule and compass of the geometrician PAINTING. 57 may be applied, rests submissively under the empireof sentiment. Louis David used to say to his pu-pils : Other painters know the…
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