On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 382
ctive influence which governs all other planes ;but merely that the figures or sections drawn upon it aresubjected to no otiicr perspective control than that whichbelongs to the plane itself, and that the eye of the observermay be shifted about to any position which affords mostconvenience for… … 336 LINEAR PERSPECTIVE. representing the object is subjected to deviations from itsprimitive geometrical form, as well as to a reduction ofscale ; by which means, an apparent direction is givento its surfaces, which does not belong to the surface onwhich it is delineated. This plane or surface has,…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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