Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 284
t, the space-fillers, the people whose business it isto bow themselves under weight, to fit themselvesinto angles, to recline in more and more developedrecumbency as the pediment slopes and narrows toits corner. Such figures, also, we must always havein art in their predestined place as the… … MURAL PAINTING 201 understood any art which was content to get alongwithout some such figures. We have no Michel-angelos and Veroneses to-day, but the old mastersbelieved in and supported a principle which relatedto every other time as well as to their own. TheybeHeved that lesser artists owed…
Mural painting and decoration · Painting
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