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 203
ch nothing else couldgive. SETTING IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. 79 The nature of that which in these arts may be calledsetting1 will suggest itself almost without illustration. Asa rule, the principal features occupy the centre and fore-ground of a painting, and the subordinate featuresare delegated… … FIG. 54—MITHRAS STABBING THE BULL.(Relief in the Louvre.) See pages 74, 120, 180, 218. of chief interest that occupies the centre; the other ob-jects surround it. Notice Geromes Pollice Verso, Fig.26, page 81. Just as the central-point, too, usually hasreference to both thought and form, so has the…
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