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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... INDEX. % The figures refer to the paragraphs, and not to the pages. A. Absorption of light by bodies, 4, 5 Accidental colours, 121; synonymous with complementary, 123 Esthetics of coloured objects, 829 Antagonism, 967 Application of the law of contrast to the hypothesis of primary and secondary colours, 76 April, arrangement of flowers in the month of, 755 Arabesques in decoration, 654-5 Architecture, errors in teaching, 932 " employment of colours in Egyptian, 540; in Gothic, 546; in Grecian, 548 Art, first condition a work of, must fulfil, 433 Association of complementary colours, 845 " non-eomplementary colours, 846 Associations bad of colours improved by separating them with white, 240 " binary colours critically considered, 844 " complex colours critically considered, 860 Assortment of frames with pictures and engravings, 564 " furniture with the wood of chairs, 557 Assortments in which black is inferior to white, 243; in which it is preferable, 241 " in which grey associates more favourably than black, 246 " of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet with white, black, and grey, 181 August, association of flowers for the month of, 759 B. Bad assortments of colours improved by white, 249; by black, 241, 242 Beautiful, idea of the, from what it proceeds, 907 Beauvais tapestry, elements of, 393; subjects on, 395; patterns of, 396 Bed-curtains, 634 Binary mixture of primary colours in threads, 380 " associations of colours in a critical point of view, 844 Black, gradation of colours by, 163, 164, 165 skins, women with, 726 drapery, influence of, on the complexion, 694 results from mixing the three primary colours, 156 influence of, on contrast of tone, 53; on contrast of colour, 54...
