I cannot remember any instances of those chiaroscuro washes which Raffaello handled in so masterly a manner, although Michelangelo frequently combined bistre shading with pen outlines.

He accordingly discovers a note, in which Mr. Wilson states that he has "given a little different shading to the famous tradition," but that "such, translated into Indian phraseology, would be the popular accounts."

Forsee it well, Antonio!if the Senate hold the Lady of the Giustiniani for fault in this,"Piero paused and uttered the last words with a slow, mysterious emphasis, while Antonio listened with an intensity that missed no shading of meaning,"it will be the cause of the people against the nobles.

She perceives with an intuitive refinement the delicate shadings of emotion, and describes them with the utmost care and detail.

As artists became more skilful, veneers were applied and the effect heightened by burning with hot sand the parts requiring shading; and the lines caused by the thickness of the sawcuts were filled in with black wood or stained glue to give definition to the design.

Such conceptions resemble the stones of a mosaic rather than the delicate shading in a picture.