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 97
white sheet, the whitest object in the picture, is placedbehind the form of the Christ. In Correggios HolyNight. Fig. 70, page 215, all the brightness in the pictureis reflected from that which illumines the face of the in-fant Jesus. It is needless to say at what the spectatorlooks first when… … FIG. 16.—DESCENT FROM THE CROSS.—PETER PAUL RUBENS.See pages 16, 72, 80, 144, 190, 214, 235, 257. 74 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM.
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