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 169
145. In many compositions like this latter, as in someof Ruysdaels landscapes, or in the sculptured group ofNiobe and her children in the Museum degl Uffizi atFlorence, Fig. 45, page 146 every cloud, wave, leaf, limb,or shred of clothing on human forms may indicate the in-fluence of the pervading… … 146 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. it illumines, may augment the suggested glow of the sun-shine that pours from the sky. Notice the Evening of Claude, (Fig. 40, page 119) with the man and maidand attendant Cupid in the foreground. The results of congruity are evident in architecture too.It is this…
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