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 309
re, as can be shown fromsuch works as the Theseus, Fig. 93, page 285, most CHA DA TION IN PAINTING. 285 marvellous effects arc owing to the way in which theinfinite curves that make up the contour of the humanform are rounded and blended, exemplifying thus not onlygradation in the curves, but… … FI3. 93.—STATUE OF THESEUS.See page 284. the whole form and its separate parts can be drawn accord-ing to mathematical principles underlying the laws chieflyof curvature. D. R. Hay, in his works on the FirstPrinciples of Symmetrical Beauty, and on The HumanFigure and the Human Head, has given an…
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