Essays on the anatomy and philosophy of expression (1893)
Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842 · London : G. Bell · leaf 134
116 OF EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS. I. The buccinator muscle. k. Insertion of part of the masseter muscle, one of the powerful muscles that close the jaws. I observed above, that some painters have thought it allowable to give human expression to the heads of lions, and others have presented it in their… … that it will never enhance the peculiar beauty of any animal to engraft upon it some part of human ex- pression. Eubens, in his picture of Daniel in the lions' den, has given this character to the heads of the lions. It is more than doubtful whether it be in the true spirit of that principle of…
Expression · Anatomy, Artistic · Emotions in art · Facial expression in art
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