The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture (1922)
Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · New York, A. A. Knopf · leaf 84
o made glorious the goldennoon of pictorial art in Italy during theRenaissance. The problem which preoc-cupied them was, as Symonds says ofLeonardo, to submit the freest play of formto simple figures lof geometry ingrouping. Alberti held that thepainter should above all things havemastered… … TElANqUWA/JYNOnOf CFTHff 64 78 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY seems to have been THE, EAAPLOVMENT OF THS EOUILATBRAL.N,TlilANGLL IN R£-NAISSANCL PAINTINOn.
Architecture · Theosophy
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