Proportion and harmony of line and color in painting, sculpture, and architecture; an essay in comparative aesthetics (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 142
lOO FIG. 54.—HERMES OF PRAXITELES. See pages 97, 99, 102, 132, 141. GREEK CONCEPTIOX OF HUMAN FORM. lOI body various parts of the forms of some half-dozen of thebest gymnasts of London. The painter Ellis, for instance,sat for the legs. There are reasons for supposing that cer-tain of the methods of… … FIQ. 55.—FROM GROUP OF NIOBE AT FLORENCE. See pages 59, 98. Suggested by the thought in the last paragraph, thereis another consideration which, in studying the proportionsof the human body, necessitates taking the observation ofnature for the point of departure. This is the fact thatdifferent…
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