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Religio pictoris (1899)

Merriman, Helen Bigelow, b. 1844, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, Kleist, Herbert, 1902-1986, collector. MB-RB · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 42

An illustration from Religio pictoris, 1899, leaf 42
etched from the patterns of earliest pot-tery to the harmony of the lines of Homer. Then Ishould say that in our plastic arts the relations of linesand spaces are, in my belief, the first and earliest de-sires, and again I should have to say that, in my un-expressed faith, these needs are as needs… … 11. THE VALUES !F we are to work with constantreference to the law of thewhole, it is important that weshould know just what thislaw practically is, so that wecan understand something of its conditionsand rewards, and we cannot learn this inany better way than by going back to itsexemplification in…

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