Steele, Frances Mary, Adams, Elizabeth Livingston Steele, joint author · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 201
anhood. The full,grand, stately curves ofthe Venus di Milo do notcome earlier in life thanthirty years (Fig. 8). Aliving woman, to resem-ble her, must weigh onehundred and sixty pounds, or more. The samemay be said of Titians fine figure in Sacred andProfane Love (Fig. 14). Psyches and Daphnesare… … Fig. 70. BEAUTY OF FORM. 193 We are apt to exalt youth, to the neglect ofother seasons. Young girls are like the trees inspring, whose construction-lines are too promi-nent. There is about them a wonderful charmof promise, of expectation, of tender colour andgentle line, but their heads are large,…
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