Examination of students who are not members of the University : examination papers, class lists, &c. for the examination held in December 1858 : to which are added the regulations for the examination in 1859 / University of Cambridge.

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1859
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Credit: Examination of students who are not members of the University : examination papers, class lists, &c. for the examination held in December 1858 : to which are added the regulations for the examination in 1859 / University of Cambridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    painting series, or the series relating to Sculpture and Architecture. Answers to both series are not expected.] 1. Name the elementary colours. 2. Colours are classed as primary, secondary, and tertiary; name the combinations from which those of the two latter classes are produced. 3. Describe the apparent effect produced on one another by the juxta-position of two surfaces coloured with different primary colours, and the cause. 4. What is the meaning of the term local colour? Painting. 5. What is the meaning of the term breadth in painting ? 6. Also of the term keeping? 7. Also of the term clair-obscure or chiar-oscuro ? 8. Explain any necessary differences and distinct means of execution in oil painting and in water-colour painting. 9. What is meant by tempera painting? 10. Also by fresco painting, and what are its peculiar advantages ? 11. Name four principal Italian, two Venetian, and two Flemish painters of tire 16th century. Sculpture and Architecture. 12. Explain the nature of the relief adopted in the sculp- tured frieze round the interior of the Parthenon. 13. Also that of the Metopes of the same building. 14. Wherein does the relief adopted by Ghiberti in the panels of the bronze gates of the Baptistry at Florence differ from that of either of the above ? 15. Describe any peculiarity of the reliefs of Della Robbia. 16. Name the characteristic differences between a Doric, an Ionic, and a Corinthian Capital. 17. When did Ghiberti flourish ? 18. What great works in Sculpture and Architecture are attributed to Michael Angelo ?