The genesis of art-form; an essay in comparative æsthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1893)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 105
l/W^ ^^ FIG. 25.—INVESTITURE OF A BISHOP BY A KINQ.See ages 48, 79. his antagonist in Geromes Pollice Vers Fig. 26,page 81,) or one can be in the light, and the other in theshade. See, again, Fig. 16, page j$, and Fig. 70, page 215.If, in addition to the two, the form contain an oddfeature, the two… … o o ^ — . 82 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. arrangement augments the effect of balancing, by thatwhich, as we shall presently find, is the main characteristicof symmetry; for, so placed, the odd feature acts likean intersecting line, clearly showing—as the body doesbetween the wings of a bird, or the…
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