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The theory and practice of landscape painting in water-colours illustrated by a series of twenty-six drawings and diagrams in colours and numerous woodcuts (1885)

Barnard, George, 1807-1890 · London, New York, George Routledge and Sons · leaf 118

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s appears little less than miraculous. Every minutecircumstance of form and perspective, of light and shade, passing unheededby the vulgar gaze, assumes in his eyes an importance commensurate withthe difficulty it involves. These ideas of difficulty, and the power of over-coming it, being… … SHADE —a term introduced into our language as a translation of the Italian wordchiaroscuro (clear-obscure)—being now universally adopted by all artists,amateurs, and writers, it is necessary to give the student, in as simple amanner as possible, an explanation of its meaning. This term is very…

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