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 419
shield from sunshine and shed water. Fig. 209, page375, shows us what is evidently only an artistic develop-ment of the same forms. Is it necessary to argue thatthe motive which, as in Figs. 171 and 172, caused men tocarve the stone of the caves without or within, so as torepresent wooden beams and… … FIG. 210.—TENT OF EASTERN ASIA.See pages 376, 386. Look, again, at the shape of the tent in Fig. 210, page376; it is taken from Cassells Aross Thibet, andrepresents the tent ordinarily used all over Asia to-day.Now look at the shape of the roofs in Fig. 211, page 377.This shape will be found…
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