Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Molling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 344
is un- avoidable unless we foreshorten the table. The nature of the case de- mands it. The picture shows how the artist disposes of a number of persons, and brings them all prominently into view. He proceeds like the naturalist. The latter, in order to make it comprehensible, divides a number of… … Thorwaldsen's Night. groups is again divided into two parts containing three persons each. But all the parts stand in a harmonious combination; they all arrange themselves in accordance with the idea of the picture. The arrange- ment obeys the laws of symmetry in the most perfect and easy manner.
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