A treatise on the art of painting, in all its branches; accompanied by seventy engraved plates, and exemplified by remarks on the paintings of the best masters .. (1817)
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640-1711, Craig, W. M. (William Marshall), ca. 1765-ca. 1834 · London, E. Orme · leaf 282
ave no power to enlighten or bring out the objects or bodies in them, though everso near. For this reason, a painter ought to avoid such accidents, and not to intro-duce them umess through necessity, to create a harmony or force ; and to placethem mostly forward, or in the. distance, against the… … ■ Of Lights and Shade*. 209 of landscapes or visto, you may introduce -white marble images, buildings, lightby-works, and light-coloured stuffs, which altogether look agreeable: and, as thenight-vapours are more dense than those of the day, so the distant objects becom<more suddenly dark and…
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