The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 130
, such conditions are 102 THE ESSENTIALS OF .ESTHETICS. shown to be the results of applying to architecture thelaws of perspective rather than of proportion, as wasonce supposed. Notice an illustration of this fact, first,in the slight upward curve in the platform on which thecolumns of the Greek… … FIG- 14.—OPTICAL ILLUSIONS CAUSED BY LINESARRANGED AS IN PEDIMENTS- See pages 102, 103. sphere, and, in the image of the external world reflectedon it, any straight lines above or below the mathematicalcentre at which the eye gazes will appear to curve upwardor downward. When the eyes are directed…
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