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being assumed.
Some
STUDENTS.
ART
of the
Italian
great
decorators
adopted this device, which gave dignity and loftiness to in their compositions. It is to be seen Mantegna's "Caesar's Triumph," at Hampton Court. One
fruitful
of the most
of
causes
failure to obtain
a
close to the
horizontalityis beginning the foreground too Corot
eye.
remarked
should
In
ahead.
size without
the
resents,
which
work, and
the
rightly,because the
understand
to
of
much
figures are
figures, which
distance
and
"
his
necessity of
constantly
work
ively instinct-
betrays a
convention
a
a
ground fore-
layman
such
as
some
disproportion between
enormous
in modern
us
this way
middle
and
failure
for,
this respect,
above, he generally began his foreground
distance
startle
in
studied
be
of
representation. Art
students
material
for
often
too
study of
form
think
and
of
composition, but
sketchingground. Incidentallythey outdoors
by working in hours soon
of
July and the day.
after the
only
August,
They had
sun
to
should
form, and
yet few
doors, compared
to art
with
students the
tax
painting box, had
vanished.
numbers
of
the powers
conditions
seen
erally gen-
middle
the
a
selves them-
lend
precision'and are
mere
Corot, who,
scene
heat
certain
a
also
his
up
the
a
as
ties their difficul-
to
remember
risen, shut
as
not
weather, and
choosing
artist,but these very
drawing,
add
in fine
remarking that the beauty of Painting in bright sunlightand well-trained
landscape
fixityof
drawing
out
sketching with
of
water
colour. Masters the
of
point from
landscape have Claude
onwards.
studied If
out
of doors
with
composition is the