American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 242
eakness, alters the other conditions of beauty: the partsin such a case collapse; the bright color,the lumenpurpiireumjuventce,\?, gone; and the fine variationis lost in wrinkles, sudden breaks, and right lines. J. A. Symonds says, Grace is a striking illus-tration of the union of the two… … The Lover. Drawn by Freer. Color and lustre have a high place among what constitutes beauty, but may be considered assecondary to form. Color assists beauty, says Winckelmann, but the essence of beauty consistsnot in color but in shape. Color, Ruskin says, is richly bestowed on the highest works…
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