A treatise on painting : in four parts : consisting of an essay on the education of the eye with reference to painting, and practical hints on composition, chiaroscuro, and colour : the whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools (1880)
Burnet, John, 1784-1868 · London : Henry Sothern & Co. · leaf 78
48 AN ESSAY ON THE plicity, and at the same time assists the artist in giving depth to his composition, one figure acting as a background to the other. Fig- 3. … This regularity of diminution not only assists in giving regularity and simplicity to a work, but enables the artist to carry the eye of the spectator into the depths of his composition. We also find it often employed in giving solidity and firmness to those heads or objects nearest the eye ; one…
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