peculiar Roman characteristics she notes freshnessof observation as opposed to the Greek feeling forconventionalization, as, for instance, in the treat-ment of landscape and botanical forms and in a newfreedom in the direction of the gaze of the eye; anillusionist as opposed to a tactile quality; a… … CourUsy Charles Scribncr^s SonsPORTRAIT or CAESAR of perspective blocked its development, a sur-render which, however, involved a new conceptionof space and a novel apprehension of color; finally,in reliefs, the emergence of an esthetic relation ofthe figures to one another and to the…
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