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 314
294 NOTES FROM THE TRANSLATION OF NOTE C. Almost every treatise on the harmonious com- bination of colours contains the diagram of the chromatic circle more or less elaborately constructed. Red … These diagrams, if intended to exhibit the contrasts produced by the action and re-action of the retina, have one common defect. The opposite colours — red and green ; yellow and purple ; blue and orange * — are made equal in intensity ; whereas the com- plemental colour pictured on the retina is…
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