. A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. In drawings of machinery this is often of the utmost importance, asinformation is the only point aimed at. We likewise often find shadow Fig. this proposition, and particularly in the last paragraph, that painting conveys such exact ideas ofshapes, figures, magnitudes, and distances, and the camera obscura of motion also, by means ofimpressions that proceed from a plane surface.—Hurtle)/ on Man, on the Sense of Sight. EDUCATION OF THE EYE. 33 made use of f
. A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools. In drawings of machinery this is often of the utmost importance, asinformation is the only point aimed at. We likewise often find shadow Fig. this proposition, and particularly in the last paragraph, that painting conveys such exact ideas ofshapes, figures, magnitudes, and distances, and the camera obscura of motion also, by means ofimpressions that proceed from a plane surface.—Hurtle)/ on Man, on the Sense of Sight. EDUCATION OF THE EYE. 33 made use of for the enriching of the subject, by making the shadows ofcomplicated objects fall upon a background of an uneven surface, as inFig. 29. Any work treating of the Education of the Eye, however short, mustnecessarily touch upon points spreading over a large range of study, andof course occupying a long space of time to become master of. It will,therefore, be difficult to separate those parts which require a power in themind, from that portion which depends more upon the cultivation of theeye, accompanied with very little effort of thinking. Nothing but earlypractice can enable the eye to see, and the hand to put on paper, thevarious objects necessary to painting with readin
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