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Identifier: treatiseonpainti00burn (find matches)
Title: A treatise on painting : In four parts ... The whole illustrated by examples from the Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch schools
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Burnet, John, 1784-1868
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London : James Carpenter
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. Inlooking abroad upon the face of nature, for example, in a wide extent ofcountry, where the eye can take a comprehensive observation, we noticetowards the horizon a multitude of parallel lines stretching across thelandscape, the lines crossing them being foreshortened lose their breadth,while the perpendicular lines of objects lose their consequence owing totheir diminution from distance; but as these approach towards the fore-ground, we perceive that they gain their ascendancy, and become morerugged in the outline, and stronger in effect from their shadowed portionsbeing larger and darker, owing to their nearness to the eye. Beingacquainted with these facts, we can produce such an arrangement as shallhave the appearance of truth, and become enabled to heighten in effectthe arrangements of natural representation, and by the addition of colours,whose properties belong to near objects, by the addition of light anddark coming in contact, which gives distinctness and firmness, by the I
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EDUCATION OF THE EYE. 53 introduction of figures and other objects, we can assist the perspective,by their assuming- forms more or less under its influence, according totheir situation. We know that quietness and regularity give dignity to part of acomposition while their lines contrast with others expressive of bustle, orpicturesque assemblage of forms; we have noticed this exemplified in theAttila, &c, we see it also in Fig. 5, part of the Heliodorus, where theheads of the figures who bear the chair of the Pope surround him with Fig. 5.

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