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Stained glass as an art (1896)

Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927 · London, New York, Macmillan · leaf 62

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itian, Velasquez,or Holbein, the attempt to represent heavy massesof drapery in sculpture or stained glass must bemore or less of a failure. For purposes of portraituresuch forms may occasionally be demanded, anda true artist will find an artistic solution of theproblem j but where the… … sequentlyenhancedin both. Con-sequentnecessityof insistingon tlienoblestforms. Fig. 4. I give a few examples on a larger scale from the ThisChartres window to illustrate this point, and it will PP^j JT 7 observed be seen how emphatically the mo\ement of the in thelimbs is insisted on, and how…

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