A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 207
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CONTRASTE AND EFFECT.
Chap. CCVII.—A Precept.
Figures will have more grace, placed in the open and general light, than in any particular or small one; because the powerful and extended light will surround and embrace the objects: and works done in that kind of light appear pleasant and graceful when placed at a distance[1], while those which are drawn in a narrow light, will receive great force of shadow, but will never appear at a great distance, but as painted objects.
- ↑ See chap. cxcvi.