The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1910)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Rochester, N. Y., The Manas press · leaf 70
alsoin the abandonment bythe artists of thoseobscurely geometricalarrangements and group-ings which, in the worksof the greatest masters,so satisfy the eye andhaunt the memory ofthe beholder (Illustra-tions 55, 56). Sculpture, even morethan painting, is basedon geometry. The colos-si of Egypt, the… … GEOMETRICAL bASlS OF THE S15T1NE CEILING PAINTINGJ all alike lend themselves in greater or less degreeto a geometrical synopsis (Illustration 57).Whenever sculpture suffered divorce fromarchitecture, the geometrical element becameless prominent, doubtless because of all the artsarchitecture is the…
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