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A grammar of colouring : applied to decorative painting and the arts (1896)

Field, George, 1777?-1854, Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878, Field, George, 1777?-1854. Rudiments of the painters' art, or, A grammar of colouring · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 234

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xplained, in them LOUIS QUATORZE. 213 also the aesthetic was substituted for the symbolic.The principles, therefore, were identical, though, fromthe imperfect apprehension, elements strange to theclassical period were generally admitted: it was arevival of principle, though not of element. The… … Fig. 38.—Carved Wood, Notre Dame, Paris (Wornum). more on the play of light and shade than in the colour-ing ; in fact, the favourite ornament, the anthemion,under a treatment which rejected flat surfaces andnecessitated hollows and projections, became thehollow shell, which is perhaps the most…

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