John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 401
his own genius, chose fantastic rocks, gnarled and knottytrunks of trees, waterfalls, impressive ruins or edifices which, in his opinion, were the best suited forhistorical landscape, Claude seized on objects less striking or grotesque, and above all gave his particularattention to the gradual… … admirably this perspective is managed—how naturally and almost imperceptibly the objects dimini^Iiin proportion, from the angel in the foreground to the bridge in the distance—and how artistically thisdiminution in size is managed with reference to those things which stand, like the castle in…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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