Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 213
tionalized, this representation finely expresses the true characterof the real object. Such details as the rectangular barley earand nerveless flower stalk in Plate IX would seem to indicatean incapacity on the part of the designer to appreciate thoseelements of beauty in plant life which may be… … Fig. 98. — Greek coin, magnified. the scrolls in the same relief (Plate IX) has a character whichmakes us wonder how a designer who could so finely renderthe nervous life of leafage could associate with this leafage the lifeless details just noticed,and the further monstros-ities of the axial…
Architecture, Renaissance
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