Turner and Mulready : the effect of certain faults of vision on painting, with especial reference to their works. The real and ideal in portraiture. The deterioration of oil paintings : three lectures / by R. Liebreich.

  • Liebreich, Richard, 1830-1917.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Turner and Mulready : the effect of certain faults of vision on painting, with especial reference to their works. The real and ideal in portraiture. The deterioration of oil paintings : three lectures / by R. Liebreich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    order to render them more easily accessible. I publish them together, notwithstanding' the difference of the subjects, as all three originated from researches following the same line. This line, which is also characteristic of the investigations I still pursue of the technique of the Old Masters, may be designated as treatment of questions of art from a scientific point of view. I have made no alterations, nor have I added any notes, in spite of the strong temptation to seize this opportunity for the refutation of some criticisms directed especially against the first lecture. I think the publication of the full text will be the best answer to most of these criticisms, which, as I feel convinced, have been based only on incomplete reports of what I had said. In the second lecture, some observations which were correct at the time are now no longer applicable—for instance, the remarks directed against the method of exhibiting works of sculpture in the Royal Academy, in which great improvement has since been effected. Since the delivery of the third lecture my researches on that question have been continued. I prefer, however, to have the lecture reprinted in its original state, and to reserve the results of my further researches for an extensive work on a similar subject. I shall be happy if artists or amateurs find in this pamphlet any observations which may prove of use to them. R. LIEBREICH. London, August, 1888.