On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . EFFECTS OF COLOURS. THE PRINCIPAL COLOURS USED, 6,7,8,9,10,ARE DISCORDANT. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS. PAST I. Plate I. is intended to show how blue, red (or scarlet), white, black,green, and gold may be combined in a mosaic pattern. The ideaof its general configuration is taken from one of the borderswhich separate the fresco paintings in Giottos Chapel, at Padua, andit has been varied to suit the arrangement of the colours. Thequantity and disposition of the green will serve to show how smalla
On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes . EFFECTS OF COLOURS. THE PRINCIPAL COLOURS USED, 6,7,8,9,10,ARE DISCORDANT. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS. PAST I. Plate I. is intended to show how blue, red (or scarlet), white, black,green, and gold may be combined in a mosaic pattern. The ideaof its general configuration is taken from one of the borderswhich separate the fresco paintings in Giottos Chapel, at Padua, andit has been varied to suit the arrangement of the colours. Thequantity and disposition of the green will serve to show how smalla proportion of that colour is required, and how it brightens up adesign. (See p. 63.) The gold too illustrates what I have said inpp. 107, 117, of its being employed in greater quantity than orangeor yellow. As an instance of the black lines separating the chiefsections of the design, mentioned in p. 108, see Blue, D 2, p. 135. Plate II. shows how the seven colours, orange, yellow, blue, purple,green, red (or scarlet), and black, given promiscuously in fig. 1,may be arranged in h
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