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The Art Of The Moving Picture

CHAPTER XI
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This type of a camp-fire is possible in our Jeanne d'Arc.
These pictures, new and old, great and unknown, indicate some of the standards of judgment and types of vision whereby our conception of the play is to be evolved.
By what means shall we block it in?
Our friend Tintoretto made use of methods which are here described from one of his biographers, W.Roscoe Osler: "They have been much enlarged upon in the different biographies as the means whereby Tintoretto obtained his power.

They constituted, however, his habitual method of determining the effect and general grouping of his compositions.

He moulded with extreme care small models of his figures in wax and clay.

Titian and other painters as well as Tintoretto employed this method as the means of determining the light and shade of their design.

Afterwards the later stages of their work were painted from the life.


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