^ •CflgnepRfluoP/ifftiens^ … VI.—FINE ART—PAINTING. It may be said, on reviewing the groundthat we have already traversed, that Art is auniversal language, intelligible to the wholeworld alike, of which the rudiments at leastwere possessed by man in the very earlieststages of his existence, and are so still byhim in the lowest…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Aesthetics
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