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Page 311
... coloured grounds of varied tones , on both panel and canvas . Jan Vermeer van Delft evolved his delicate colour harmonies out of a dim greenish grey . His modelling depends , like that of Velasquez , on the slightest modulation of tone ...
... coloured grounds of varied tones , on both panel and canvas . Jan Vermeer van Delft evolved his delicate colour harmonies out of a dim greenish grey . His modelling depends , like that of Velasquez , on the slightest modulation of tone ...
Page 333
... colour and design . His influence was great and on the whole harmful . His innate facility led him occasionally to emptiness and vulgarity , to the theatrical and the sentimental . These qualities appealed to the new romantic taste of ...
... colour and design . His influence was great and on the whole harmful . His innate facility led him occasionally to emptiness and vulgarity , to the theatrical and the sentimental . These qualities appealed to the new romantic taste of ...
Page 690
... colour . To obtain a print the dyed reliefs or matrices are brought successively in contact with a piece of gelatin - coated white paper , so that the dye migrates to the gelatin on the paper . This process forms the basis of the Dye ...
... colour . To obtain a print the dyed reliefs or matrices are brought successively in contact with a piece of gelatin - coated white paper , so that the dye migrates to the gelatin on the paper . This process forms the basis of the Dye ...
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