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 400
organism of form in a composition, considered asa whole, in the degree in which, through a use of light andshade or hue, the sides are balanced, as we say. Thus, inRubenss well known Descent from the Cross, Fig. 129,page 359, a white sheet, the whitest object in the picture,is placed behind the… … FIG. 129.—the descent FROM THE CROSS, BY RUBENS.See pages 59, 303, 358, 363, 365, 367, 369. 359 360 PROPORTION AND HARMONY. side, a dish and parchment at the lower right corner be-ing especially prominent, as balancing the light from theshoulders of a man at the upper left corner. The impressions…
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