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Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)

[England? : s.n.] · leaf 81

An illustration from Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, 1900, leaf 81
His predecessors hadbeen content with few, ami those slum- saturatedblues and scarlets and greens which were known tolast, They kept their tlesh tones nearly flat, relyingon the outline for .licet. The painters insisted thaithey should imitate the colour of paint, ignorant ofthe fact that the pale… … ESTHERS PETITION(Si/ Jean Francois de Trotj.) preserve their decorative effect, for it never dependedon the subtleties of modelling. With the foundationof the manufactory of the Gobelins this revolutionhad been carried far. That famous workshop had not sprung intoexistence without a forerunner in…

Buckingham Palace (London, England) · Windsor Castle · Decoration and ornament

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