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 276
age of which we are conscious on theretina ; and only when lines vertical in nature—i. e., per-pendicular to the earths level—are directly in front ofus, are they necessarily vertical in this image. Horizontallines, if above the level of the eye, will, at the place directlyin front of us, curve… … H * < (// 236 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. way—the direction of lines that appear to him to be hori-zontal. Evidently, in the degree in which he gazes up-ward, each of these lines above him will describe moreand more of a curve. In Fig. 8r, page 155, the summits
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