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 200
a. £ o - id co 176 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. them, and as if to an ideal central-point that is abovethem. A similar effect, but having a more direct bearingupon symmetry in that it directs attention to a central-linerather than point, yet evidently suggested by the way inwhich limbs radiate from a… … FIG. 52.—THE SOLDIERS RETURN.(From the National Monument near Bingen, Germany.) See pages 16, 26, 174, 182, 257. more of it than, at first, might be supposed. Even thelaws of the perspective on which it is based were appliedby the Greeks to produce effects in buildings in muchthe same way as we now…
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