On the philosophy of painting: a theoretical and practical treatise.. (1849)
Twining, Henry · London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 489
e truths, andrender them far more practically useful than would domore precise definitions. % REFLECTION ON SMOOTH WATER. The perspective of objects which are reflected onwater, does not present the circumstantial difficultieswhich attend the representation of the features, or ofthe whole figure,… … REFLECTION ON SMOOTH WATER. 43? 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 the first, the perspective…
Painting · Aesthetics · Perspective
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