Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 241
hing but the broad-est facts are indicatedby them. One of thelatest of these, beingthe most obviously ex-aggerated and over-strained conception,may be first considered (Fig. 157)- It is a general ruleof art criticism—firstdistinctly formulatedand explained by theGerman critic Lessing,in his Essay… … Fig. 152.—King Arthur. Bronze; by Peter Vischer. From the Maximilian Monument at Innspruck. Early Sixteenth Century. Renaissance Sculpture. 233 nature, and when perpetuated in solid form they finallybecome tedious; for the double reason that they present acontradiction between the momentary…
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