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 78
EDUCATION OF THE EVE. 47 to diminish as they recede from the eye, we often find in the works ofRaflaelle and others this feature engrafted upon portions of their groups,as in Fig. 2, part of the Cartoon of Ananias. Fig. 2. … As it is the character of objects to intercept others more or less, asthey recede from the foreground, and as it is their character also to diminishand possess less of detail by their receding, we perceive this principlecarried into the works of the great founders of the art in a variety ofways ;…
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