A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 170
CERAMIC ART times the centre of a dish or the body of a vase will receive a medallion within which a scene with landscape and many figures is given, all painted with a certain disregard of accurate ana- … Fic. 38. Majolica dish (" La Collection Spitzer ") tomical correctness in figures or perspective in landscape, and this because of the reluctant nature of the material, which lends itself easily to bril- liancy of color but with difficulty to refinements of drawing. It is greatly to be desired that…
Art · Decorative arts
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