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Show Perspective of Light. Velasquez recognized that light Ii elastic nnd Illuminates the air. Ilenco ho was the first to discover a new kind of perspective. Men long ago had learned to niako lines vanish from the cyo; to make tho figures diminish di-minish In slzo nnd shape us they recede, re-cede, from tho front; and to explain tho distance by contrasts of light and shade. Hut ho discovered tho perspective per-spective of light. Hy the most delicate deli-cate rendering of tho quantity ol light reflected from each nnd every part of tho room and tho figures and objects in It, ho has given to the latter lat-ter tho reality of form nnd to tho room Its hollowness and distance. St. Nicholas. |