Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)
Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 334
ave spaceenough above it to allow ofthe head being raised, other-wise the figure has an un-comfortable look, as if shecould not lift up her headwithout rapping it againstvthe frame. * Indeed all stooping, sit-ting, or kneeling figuresshould have space enough allowed them to stand upin. They should… … 320 LECTURES ON PAINTING. man masters of the Albert Durer school. Withthem, however, it was not a mannerism but a habitcontracted by wood-engraving. In those early days the graving tools were veryrude and coarse ; moreover, the blocks were small,hence it became imperative to design the figures…
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