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 45
s. The application of aerial perspective, therefore, enables the artist tokeep the several objects in their respective situations, and give a naturalreality to the most complicated scene. A row of columns will diminishaccording as they are drawn true to lineal perspective, but it is to thisquality… … this power one is made to approach and the other to recede, so that oneis diminished to the size of a tent, the other increased to a pyramid. Fig. 23.
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