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Renaissance and modern art (1894)

Goodyear, William H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa. : Flood and Vincent · leaf 237

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1894, leaf 237
thing but the broad-est facts are indicatedby them. One of thelatest of these, beingthe most obviously ex-aggerated and over-strained conception,may be first considered(Fig. 157). It is a general ruleof art criticism—firstdistinctly formulatedand explained by theGerman critic Lessing,in his Essay… … Fig. 152.—King Arthur. Bronze; by Peter Vischer. From the Maximilian Monument at Innspruck. Early Sixteenth Century. Renaissance Sculpture. 233 nature, and when perpetuated in solid form they finally-become tedious; for the double reason that they present acontradiction between the momentary…

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