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 79
elievos, in thefigures and heads of Michael Angelo and Raffaelle, and in the works ofthose who have collected from the great stores of nature and art. Theexample, Fig. 3, is from Titian, part of a subject formerly in the churchof St. Nicola de Fiari at Venice, now in Rome. This regularity of… … This regularity of diminution not only assists in giving regularity andsimplicity to a work, but enables the artist to carry the eye of thespectator into the depths of his composition. We also find it oftenemployed in giving solidity and firmness to those heads or objects nearestthe eye; one…
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