The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 68
equipment of the painters who made glorious the golden noon of pictorialart in Italy, during the Renaissance. The problem which preoccupied themwas, as Symonds says of Leonardo, to submit the freest play of form tosimple figures of geometry in grouping. Alberti held that the painter should,above… … 5NOW CEXyiALS HONBY COMB THE. FACE- FLLSH FLY 51 The first painter who deliberatelyrather than instinctively based his com-position on geometrical principles seemsto have been Fra Bartolomeo, in his LastJudgment, in the church of St. MariaNuova, in Florence. Symonds says ofthis picture, Simple…
Architecture · Theosophy
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