The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 277
es ofthe world, says Charles Blanc, in the work just quoted,as in the human figure, in painting, or in architecture,the straight lines correspond to a sentiment of austerityand force, and give to a composition in which they are re-peated, a grave, imposing, rigid aspect. (See Fig. 49,page 247.)… … u. q 250 THE ESSENTIALS OF AESTHETICS. this line, and, prostrate like him, seems condemned to therepose of his master, and to affirm a second time hisdeath. Again referring to the vertical lines, he says: Look now at The Life of Saint Bruno, by Lesueur.. . . The solemnity of the religious…
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