On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 487
truths, andrender them far more practically useful (ban woidd domore precise definitions. RF.FLECTION ON SMOOTH WATER. The perspective of objects which are reflected onwater, docs not present the circumstantial difficultieswhich attend the representation of the features, or ofthe whole figure,… … O o in H H S o ir.D O REFLECTION ON S.MOOTII WATEK. ISJ of distance, as the real objects. In fact, we see in thereflection but the complement of the reality : it forms asit were part of the same whole in the vanishing pro-gression of the scene. The outline of the real objectsbeing always planned…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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