Contributions to the literature of the fine arts (1870)
Eastlake, Charles Lock, Sir, 1793-1865, author, Ker, H. Bellenden (Henry Bellenden), 1785?-1871, writer of preface · London : John Murray · leaf 127
107 BASSO-RILIEVO. thirty years before the Parthenon ; and it is not impossible that the satisfactory effect of the flat rilievi on the cella of the latter might have sug- gested a similar treatment, or some modification of it, in the Temple of Theseus, had that building been erected later. Lateral… … It may be observed in general, that alto-rilievo can seldom be fit for interiors, not only from its liability to accident, but from the difficulty of dis- playing it by the full light which it requires. A superficial light, if in a lateral direction, throws the shadow of one figure on another.…
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