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Example sentences for "foreshortenings"

Lexicographically close words:
foreshewn; foreshore; foreshorten; foreshortened; foreshortening; foreshow; foreshowed; foreshown; foreshows; foreside
  1. From that period he continued to ennoble his manner, rendering the contours more round and ample, the foreshortenings more new, the expression of the countenance more warm and lively, as well as the motions of his figures.

  2. Montagne; the whole of them painted for churches, robust in their design, displaying fine variety of foreshortenings and of attitudes, with naked parts in grand character, and more in emulation of the Caracci than of Michelangiolo.

  3. The positions and foreshortenings of the figures are diversified and complete beyond those practised by Paolo Uccello.

  4. He first introduced foreshortenings into painting, and if in this he did not attain his object, he greatly improved the perspective of buildings, the attitudes, and the variety and expression of the heads.

  5. His works, however, exhibit not that contrast of colouring, that mellowness and clearness, that grace in foreshortenings and features, that characterize the ornament of the Lombard school.

  6. This gave them courage to lay down rules for perspective and to carry the foreshortenings precisely to the point which gives an exact imitation of the relief apparent in nature and the real form.

  7. These masters sought with great efforts to do the impossible in art by means of labour, particularly in foreshortenings and in things unpleasant to the eye, which were as painful to see as they were difficult for them to execute.

  8. He was one of the most elegant painters of this school, and an imitator of the foreshortenings and the graces of Coreggio, as was his father, but more correct than he, and a good master of design.

  9. In his foreshortenings and in his draperies he sometimes falls into affectation.

  10. And since he began to have a good knowledge of light and shade, seeing that he worked in relief, he made many difficult foreshortenings very well, as is seen in that beggar who is seeking alms from S.

  11. Angelo, its figures recede more gradually, yet with more evidence, than the groups of Correggio, whose ostentatious foreshortenings generally sacrifice the actor to his posture.

  12. The simplicity of Raphael's forms is little beholden to that contrast and those foreshortenings which are the element of Correggio's style.

  13. His points of sight from below upward, are correct, and his foreshortenings dextrously contrived.

  14. Front Foreshortenings from points of view on the same horizontal plane, at suitable angles from the Laterals.

  15. Rear Foreshortenings from points of view on the same vertical line, at an angle of 90 deg.

  16. The more this work is studied in detail the more beautiful the forms appear, and the more daring and skilful the foreshortenings are found to be.


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