On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 444
orizontal, as it would be ifthe stones were parallel, partakespartly of the inclination of therays, and loses, in the same pro-portion, that character of resemblance to the object,which is remarked more or less in projected shadows. Let us investigate more fully the principles on whichthe twisted… … 394 PROJECTED SHADOWS. cumscribed, if angular, by right lines having- likewisetwo kinds of extension, it becomes necessary to distin-guish the plane of projection of one of these classes oflines from that of the other; that is to say, to define, ifthe body be upright, the figure of the shadow which…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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