[Footnote 30: ] As in algebraic science, much depends, in complicated perspective, on the student’s ready invention of expedients, and on his quick sight of the shortest way in which the solution may be accomplished, when there are several ways.] [Return to text]
[Footnote 31: ] The greatest masters are also fond of parallel perspective, that is to say, of having one side of their buildings fronting them full, and therefore parallel to the picture plane, while the other side vanishes to the sight-point. This is almost always done in figure backgrounds, securing simple and balanced lines.] [Return to text]
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I.
PRACTICE AND OBSERVATIONS.
II.
DEMONSTRATIONS.
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PRACTICE AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE PRECEDING PROBLEMS.
Problem I.
An example will be necessary to make this problem clear to the general student.