It is said that the foreshortening of the corpse is wrong, and that in some points the finish runs into dryness, but universal judgment places the 'Lesson in Anatomy' among the greatest triumphs of human genius.
In this picture Masaccio made his first great triumph in the foreshortening of feet.
The lively pony is a light chestnut and the foreshortening of its body must be noticed.
This work of Rubens was the first example of foreshortening done by a Flemish painter.
He is also fond of banquet-scenes at all times, and found in them scope for bold foreshortening as applied to figures in repose.
The expressions of the figures and the remarkable foreshortening of Patroklos’ right leg are indications of the admirable skill of the painter, whoever he may have been.
The temptation to imitate effects of foreshortening for its own sake is not without some excuse, as it is quite possible to make presentable pictures in this way.
If there are limits to be observed in the foreshortening of a single leaf, how much more must they apply to the representation of whole landscapes?
In proportion to the amount of actual projection from the background, of course the necessity diminishes for that kind of foreshortening which is obtained by delineation.
As its name implies, foreshortening means the way in which anything seems shortened or in modified drawing as it projects towards you; while perspective is the manner in which lines appear as they recede from you.
Perspective can be worked out by rule, foreshortening cannot.
After all, foreshortening is only good drawing, and a good draughtsman will foreshorten well, while a bad draughtsman will not.
Like aerial perspective, the best way to study foreshortening is to study nature, not rules.
Figures sometimes appeared as if falling or slipping from the canvass; buildings had not a true point of view; and the art of foreshortening was yet very rude.
Of course, there is the possibility offoreshortening time to meet the exigencies of vaudeville when the scene is not changed.
This is an extreme instance, as time foreshortening goes, because it is one where the audience might grasp the disparity, and is given for its side-light of warning as well as for its suggestive value.
The Baptist is twisting round, to display the foreshortening which Pordenone particularly affects.
Though painted before his journey to Rome, it may be suspected that he had Michelangelo's work in the Sixtine Chapel in mind, and that he was setting himself the task of bold foreshortening and technical problems.
Rocco; and among these are some nude figures very well conceived, and a dead body in foreshortening that is very beautiful.
His style is solid and strong, his colouring forcible, and in the skill of his foreshortening on ceilings, he yields to very few of his day.
That in the cathedral extorted the praise of Baldinucci; and truly in the figure of Christ his foreshortening deceives the eye like that of Pordenone in his Dead Christ, while his heads and his colouring have likewise been commended.
He did not acquire a knowledge of foreshortening in the school of Daniello, and here he failed, however respectable in other points.
The laws of perspective and foreshortening were worked out by Paolo Uccello and Brunelleschi.
Life-long study of perspective in its application to the drawing of the figure, made the difficulties of foreshortening and the delineation of brusque attitude mere child's play to this audacious genius.
In the portrait of Alexander, the hand, outstretched with the lightning, appeared to stand quite out from the panel, a result perhaps equally owing to masterly foreshortening in the drawing.
The foreshortening of some of the figures is admirable, the composition in the restricted space is good, and there is superb drawing and modelling in the foreground figure among the Prophets in the last fresco.
The foreshortening is admirable, and so is the fine perspective of the beautiful architecture of the Temple.
Francis, and another figure; with some heads in foreshortening in a sunk medallion on the vaulting.
Foreshortening is so important that I must try to explain it; and, as Correggio is said to be the greatest master in this art since the days of the Greeks, it is quite proper for me to speak of it in connection with him.
Indeed, this foreshortening lies at the core of the business; for unless it be well understood, no branch-form can ever be rightly drawn.
Here is a piece of Dutch foreshorteningfor you to compare with it, Fig.
This, if I mistake not, has been the case with the science of perspective, subsequent to the time of Pier della Francesca; with regard to foreshorteningafter Melozzo; and also with chiaroscuro after Lionardo.
I went back to Columbus with such heart as I could, but in the dense foreshorteningof the time's events I cannot find that of my own unhorsing from the shining procession of journalists figured in my poem.
Giuliano, there are scenes from the life of that Saint, with a good number of figures, and a dog in foreshortening that was much extolled.
By his hand, also, are some apartments and loggie in the house of the Marchesino Ostanesia in the same city, wherein there are many pictures wrought by him that show mastery and very great power in the foreshortening of the figures.
If we ask ourselves on what principle this selection and foreshortening of truth takes place in the mind, we may perhaps come upon the real bond and the deepest contrast between mind and its environment.
Historical theory, in turn, is a falsification of causes, since no causes are other than mechanical; it is an arbitrary foreshortening of physics, and it dissolves in the presence either of adequate knowledge or of clear ideals.
In these compositions, Correggio "carries the foreshortening of the figures to a point which, while it displays the daring of the artist, too often transcends the limits of grace.
The foreshortening of the apostles suggests the work of Uccello (see 583), who is known to have painted in that city.
The moderns have doubtless surpassed the ancients in the arrangement of their groups, in perspective, foreshortening and chiaro-scuro--and in coloring.
His fertility of invention was wonderful; his genius grappled with and conquered the most arduous difficulties of the art, and he shows his powers in foreshortening in the most daring variety.
Agostino, in a style offoreshortening that displays a master.
