Handbook of the practice and art of photography (1875)
Vogel, Hermann Wilhelm, 1834-1898, Molling, Edward F · Philadelphia, Benerman & Wilson · leaf 353
atues, and even where the figure is completely draped we can discern the form of the body distinctly. Shape and motion of the covered limbs are distinctly vis- ible. To this principle, from which the ancients never deviated, our great modern artists strictly adhere, and where it has been overlooked… … the form of the legs contained therein, Madonna, after Van Eyck. so that the elevated leg appears as a shapeless mass. Compare with this Fig. 140, where the forms are much more clearly indicated through the covering of the Madonna of Fra Bartolommeo. It is not difficult to perceive that one leg is…
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