The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 124
; inother words, to represent, and not merely to imitate. All that has been said of drawing in painting appliesto carving in sculpture. The method of finishing sur-faces in marble or bronze, whether represented in full orin part relief, is not determined by the requirements ofactual imitation, but… … 2 I LIFE AND MOVEMENT. 97 one rather than with another mode of treatment. Itwould be difficult to find any human forms with musclesactually resembling those in the figures in MichaelAngelos Tombs of the Medici, at Florence (Fig. 8,page 96). Yet the influence of light and shade upon thecarving, when…
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