The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 129
CTIVE. IOI and perspective as produced in architecture, especiallyas these effects are extremely important and are usuallyoverlooked. By the ancient Greeks they were not over-looked ; nor, as has been discovered recently, by themediaeval Gothic architects. According to Prof. W. H.Goodyear,… … FIG- 13.—PHOTOGRAPHIC EFFECT OF CURVED STYLO-BATE AND COLUMN OF THE PARTHENON. See page 102. the effects of distance, according to the laws of perspec-tive. These facts largely explain not only the superior-ity of the ancient and the mediaeval architecture, but alsothe inability of artists of our…
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