Another word for delineation
A line marking and shaping the outer form of an object
The act or process of describing in lifelike imagery
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Another word for delineation
A description
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A line marking and shaping the outer form of an object
The act or process of describing in lifelike imagery
A description
Of works certainly executed by him during his years of travel there are extant, besides the Basel wood-block, only a much-injured portrait of himself, very finely dressed and in the first bloom of his admirable manly beauty, dated 1493 and originally painted on vellum but since transferred to canvas (this is the portrait of the Felix Goldschmid collection); a miniature painting on vellum at Vienna (a small figure of the Child-Christ); and some half a dozen drawings, of which the most important are the characteristic pen portrait of himself at Erlangen, with a Holy Family on the reverse much in the manner of Schongauer; another Holy Family in nearly the same style at Berlin; a study from the female nude in the Bonnat collection; a man and woman on horseback in Berlin; a man on horseback, and an executioner about to behead a young man, at the British Museum, &c. These drawings all show Diirer intent above all things on the sternly accurate delineation of ungeneralized individual forms by means of strongly accented outline and shadings curved, somewhat like the shadings of Martin Schongauer's engravings, so as to follow their modellings and roundness.
Little progress in the delineation of 0 upon his chart of the FIG.
The earliest delineation of the description has already been referred to as the AngloSaxon map of the world.
His delineation of Abyssinia, though unduly spread over a wide area, is indeed wonderfully correct.
His sculptures are at the highest range of original and effective delineation in antiquity.