…………………………………
…………………………………Lake
………………………………. Agassiz
……………………………….Fed by glacial
…………………………….meltwater at the
…………………………… end of the last
…………………………..glacial period, its
………………………..area was larger than a
………………………..ll of the modern Great
……………………Lakes combined, and at times it
……………………it held more water than containe
…………………..d by all lakes in the world today
…………………With increasing realism in painting
…………………, the halo came to be a problem
………………….for artists. So long as they continu
……………………ed to use the old composition
……………………al formulae which had been
……………………worked out to accommodate haloes,
…………………..the problems were manageable,
……………………but as Western artists
…………………….sought more flexibility
…………………………in composition,
…………………………..this ceased to
…………………………….. be the case.
…………………………….. decline of th.
………………………………. e halo
…………………………………
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