American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 238
in a curved than ina straight Une, which requires laborious adjustment, Bain traces part of our superior pleasure inrounded lines. Winckelmann says, The forms of a beautiful body are determined by lines thecentre of which is constantly changing, and which, if continued, would never describe… … 194 AMERICAN ART diversity was sought after by the Greeks in works of all kinds; and their discernment of its beautyled them to introduce the same system even into the form of their utensils and vases, whose easyand elegant outline is drawn after the same rule, — that is, by a line which must be…
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