Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 738
AN IDEAL HEAD. We must of course look at this picture as simply au imper-fect embodiment of the artists idea of a perfect head and face.He may have been no phrenologist or physiognomist in thecommon accept- ation o f theseterms, but he hadno doubt observ-ed that in all thenoblest speci-mens of… … Fis?. 1033.—Head of the Saviour. ity ; and he hasessayed to giveto his head of Christ all these characteristics in the highestdegree, and to imbue the whole, so far as art is capable of do-ing it, with the spirit of divinity. Of course it falls fir shortof our highest conceptions of the incarnate…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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