The Classic And Connoisseur in Italy And Sicily volume 2
The Classic And Connoisseur in Italy And Sicily volume 2
George William David Evans
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11) he tells us, " That Zeuxis, and Polygnotus, and Euphranor understood how to express shade, and to make their figures advance and retire. " The younger Pliny also says : " In a picture there is nothing seta off light more than shade. " (Lib. Iii. Epist. 13). In another passage of Pliny, the art of foreshortening is clearly indicated. " Pausias was the first inventor of a secret in painting, which many afterwards imitated, but none were able to equal. Though intending to give the entire lengt...h of an ox, he represented it, not sideways, but with its head turned towards the spectator, and yet the size of the animal was perfectly perceptible. Again, painters in general make the parts, which they wish to be in relief, rather light, and compose a colour out of a black ground; but Pausias made the whole ox of a black colour, and represented a body of shade rising out of shade; shewing, with consummate skill, that parts might stand out where all seemed even, and that every part might be definite and distinct where all seemed confused.
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