. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . es, and with which weclose our Handbook,—namely, that while so much hasbeen prescribed for the preservation and restoration of * Prange says, that the excrement of spiders is still worse ; forits causticity is such as to destroy the color, leaving white are among the causes, he adds, that compel to the varnish-ing of pictures. 296 HANDBOOK OF OILPAINTING. paintings, it would be quite as useful
. Handbook of young artists and amateurs in oilpainting, being chiefly a condensed compilation from the celebrated manual of Bouvier ... appended a new explanatory and critical vocabulary . es, and with which weclose our Handbook,—namely, that while so much hasbeen prescribed for the preservation and restoration of * Prange says, that the excrement of spiders is still worse ; forits causticity is such as to destroy the color, leaving white are among the causes, he adds, that compel to the varnish-ing of pictures. 296 HANDBOOK OF OILPAINTING. paintings, it would be quite as useful if something couldbe done to promote their destruction; for out of the vastcrowd of pictures old and new, that here, as well as inEurope, are giving mostly a false direction to public taste,or preventing its expansion, ninety out of every hundredmight disappear to the manifest advantage of the art, whileof the ten remaining five are all the better, or would be so,for any obscuration that in rendering their characteristicaless obvious should help also to veil their defects. A COMPLETE AND TO A CERTAIN DEGREE AJfALYTrCAI, INDEX OF ALL, THE MATTERS CONTAINED INTHE PRfeCEDING TREATISI. INDEX OF MATTERS Accessories, general manner of treatingin the deadcoloring—pa^e 191—(forthe tints, see respuctive heads of Lin-en, Backgroundt, etc.); when use-less, to be discarded, 190. Accidental touches of sunlight in land-scapes, 274. Advantages, to a young artist, of tJiesystematic and detailed arrangementof the tints of his palette, as indicated(after Bnuviers method) in this vol-ume, 155, 167. After-touches {retouches) 233 (,note). Alcohol, as a solvent of resins, used bythe picturecleaners/or removing var-nishes : danger of its application;mode of guarding (against it, 289,290. Anatomical detail, nO)t to bo too exactlyobserved in the neck and chest, 220. Antimony- Yellow, 47, 51, 55. fThite, 8, i3. Antwerp Blue: bad properties, 4 (andnote). Antwerp Lake: character, 15. ApELLES—assum
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