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Such technical knowledge, wrote Goethe,
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Colouring, light and shadows, do not give such value to a painting as noble contour alone, wrote Winckelmann, and these sentences became the starting-point of the next generation. Winckelmann's error when he recommended the imitation of Greek sculpture to the modern painter consisted still further in this, that he confused
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with lack of colour and coldness. Herder had written well:
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In distinction to the compact harmony of form in sculpture, painting has her harmonious unity in colour and light. I do not know why many theorists should have spoken so contemptuously of what is called _chiaroscuro_, the grouping of light and shade; it is the instrument of genius with every scholar and master, the eye with which he sees, the flashing, spiritual sea with which he sprinkles everything, and on which, indeed, every outline also depends. This divine, spiritual sea of light, this fairyland of adjusted light and shade, is the business of painting: why should we fight against nature, and not allow every art to do what it alone can do and do best?