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 312
of the same method, both in painting andsculpture, the hundreds of curves that together constitutethe contour of the human body are made to pass into eachother, causing its members gradually to expand or taper.Yet there are places, as at the heel, where the transitionsare very abrupt. The number of… … GRADATION IN ARCHITECTURE. 289 tecture which in pillars, entablatures, niches, and pedestalssurround or support the figures. See those on pp. 30,74, 121. Both these methods have a place too in architecture.All must have noticed that perpendicular lines when car-
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