Painting and painters' materials: a book of facts for painters and those who use or deal in paint materials (1883)
Condit, Charles L, Scheller, Jacob · New York, The Railroad gazette · leaf 55
becausethere is so much of this white glossy light mixed with 2S Painting and Painters Materials. its light. We are getting all the light there is fromthe picture, but our eyes do not see it because theyare blinded by the brighter, glossy light from the sur-face of the glass. By taking another… … Glass and varnish throw the white, glossy light out ofthe way, and the picture appears brighter to our eyesbecause it has less white light mixed with its lightcolors and shades than a picture over which there isneither glass nor varnish. This power of varnish, its ability to bring outcolors beneath…
Painting, Industrial · Paint
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