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 54
We also fiud that objects either project or recede according to thestrength of their shadows, and become either solids or vacuums from theirshadows falling within or without the spaces marked by their outlines. Fig. 26. Fig. 27. … 16 a \ye judge of the figure and shape of bodies chiefly by the variations of light and shade,and our associations taken thence are so strong, as we are easily imposed upon by a just imitationof the light and shade belonging to each shape and figure in their several situations with respectto the…
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