Contributions to the literature of the fine arts (1870)
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865, author, Ker, H. Bellenden (Henry Bellenden), 1785?-1871, writer of preface · London : John Murray · leaf 131
Ill BASSO-RILIEVO. as before observed, limits the attitudes more than in a statue, and, as will also appear, more than in a basso-rilievo. For in the latter, however distinct the outline, in which the chief impression and meaning of the figure reside, the shadows within the extreme outlines are in… … it is, in fact, by their being so suppressed that the general form becomes distinct. This is also the case when one form is relieved on another; it will be found that the nearest object is very much reduced and flattened, in order that its shadow may not interfere with the more important shadows of…
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