A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools (1837)
Burnet, John, 1784-1868 · London : James Carpenter · leaf 228
. The linen in this picture, and most others of Titian, is light and cutting,the flesh forming the half light. Reynolds, talking of the Descent fromthe Cross, by Reubens, says, he well knew what effect white linen,opposed to flesh, must have, with his powers of colouring; and the truthis, that none…
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