Painting, sculpture and architecture as representative arts; an essay in comparative æsthetics (1895)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 118
repetition GRADATION IN THE OUTLINES OF SHAPES. 75 and parallelism of the verticals ; and this parallelism, whichwould be only monotony if the painter had had other per-sonages to put upon the canvas, becomes an expressiverepetition when it is necessary to render apparent the re-spect and… … j / ««7 5sj S^^gjjlsl FIG. 36.—THE RAPE OF THE SABINES. N. POUSSIN. See pages 46, 75, 87. though often angularity alone is attributed to them, hesays : If it be necessary to represent a terrible idea,—for instance that of the last judgment, . . . such sub-jects demand lines vehement, impetuous, and…
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