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 320
es and appearances of nature. It seems desirable,therefore, that the order of gradation from the lowerto the higher stories should be the one that was firstdescribed. What was said, a few pages back, of the use of curva-ture in architecture, is equally applicable to abruptness inthe introduction of… … FIG. 99.—INTERIOR OF SAN PEDRO DE CARDENA, SPAIN. See page 295. PUBLIC PROGRESS IN PAINTING. 297 at liberty to imitate abruptness or any other condition, ifonly it be found in nature; but in an art in which men donot take forms ready-made, and the object of which is toreduce things to systematic…
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