I have taken the first seven pictures reproduced in this book that were not selected with any idea of illustrating this point, and I think you will admit that in each some very important quantity has been placed in this proportion.  One could go on through all the illustrations were it not for the fear of becoming wearisome; and also, one could go on through some of the minor relationships, and point out how often this proportion turns up in compositions.  But enough has been said to show that the eye evidently takes some especial pleasure in it, whatever may eventually be found to be the physiological reason underlying it.

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INDEX

Absorbent canvas

Academic drawing

Academic and conventional

Academic students

Accuracy, scientific and artistic

Anatomy, study of, its importance

“Ansidei Madonna,” Raphael’s

Apelles and his colours

Architecture, proportion in

Art, some definitions of

Artist, the

Atmosphere indicated by shading

Atmospheric colours

Audley, Lady, Holbein’s portrait of

“Bacchus and Ariadne,” Titian’s

Backgrounds

Balance

Balance between straight lines and curves

Balance between flat and gradated tones

Balance between light and dark tones

Balance between warm and cold colours

Balance between interest and mass

Balance between variety and unity

“Bank-note” papers

Bastien Lepage

Bath for etching

Beauty, definition of

Beauty and prettiness

Beauty and truth

“Birth of Venus, the,” Botticelli’s

Black chalk

Black Conte

Black glass, the use of a

Blake, example of parallelism

Blake’s designs

Blake’s use of the vertical

Blocking in the drawing

Blocking out with square lines

“Blue Boy,” Gainsborough’s

Botany, the study of

Botticelli’s work

Boucher’s heads compared with Watteau’s

Boundaries of forms

Boundaries of masses in Nature

Bread, use of, in charcoal drawing

Browning, R., portraits of

Brush, manipulation of the

Brush strokes

Brushes, various kinds of

Burke on “The Sublime and the Beautiful”

Burne-Jones

Camera, use of the

Carbon pencils

Carlyle

Circle, perfect curve of, to be avoided

Chalks, drawing in

Charcoal drawing;
  fixing solution

Chavannes, Peuvis de