Howard, Frank: Colour, as a means of art: being an adaptation of the experience of professors to the practice of amateurs (London, 1838)

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CHAPTER II.

SECTION V.

THE PRINCIPLES OF TITIAN AND THE VENETIAN
SCHOOL.

The Venetian School, founded by Titian, adopted
a combination of rich warm browns, yellows and
greens, supported by crimsons, all deep in tone,
overspreading two-thirds of the picture, opposed
by very rich, almost warm, blues, and animated by
a point of white, sometimes accompanied by black
in the front of the subject. No violent contrasts
are admitted, no crude colours. The white is
toned down to assimilate with flesh tints, which
are again toned to accord with golden lights,