The essentials of æsthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1921)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 368
356. and artificial lines are not so important. If one be facingus, it is wellnigh impossible not to suppose an imaginaryvertical straight line drawn from the middle of his foreheadto the middle of his chin, as in Fig. 73, page 347, andif we find this line passing through the middle of his nose,… … FIG. 71— COSTUMES DIVIDING HUMAN FORMS PROPORTIONATELY.See page 344. the middle of the nose is out of this vertical line, notonly irregularity but ugliness is suggested. A similar
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