Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 324
showsthe same sense of beauty that produced the Venus and Apollo. Compare with it the zigzag employed by theEgyptians for the same purpose, which has a rigid, fixed,angular character, indicating no artistic sympathy, givingpromise of no progression. Yet have these zigzag linesx2 303 HALF-HOUR… … The entire imitative arts of some countries have beenconfined within a convention restricted from developmentand remaining the same for centuries, except that the exe-cution might be more or less perfect. The Doric and Ioniccapitals and shafts, proportioned on given principles, servedthe Greeks for…
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