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The message of greek art (1915)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York : Macmillan Co. · leaf 335

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is a thing utterly different from sculpture. Theone deals with perspective, that is, with apparent spaces andforms, and the other with real spaces and forms. Picture ispossible in sculpture, as the marvelous work of Ghiberti has soabundantly demonstrated, but picture is the appropriate goalof… … Fig. 129. — Head of a Woman. Museum, Boston. Dispersion and Transfusion 319 Now it is a safe and obvious rule in art, as in every line ofhuman endeavor, that we should follow the line of least resist-ance, for this is the line of greatest achievement. It is possiblefor a pipe organ to imitate a…

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