Viardot, Louis, 1800-1883 · New York, Scribner, Armstrong, and Company · leaf 18
Fig. I.—Stone Age. self ; he realised that the human form is adaptedto the spirit, that it is, so to speak, its clothing ;that its proportions, its symmetry, its ease ofmotion, its superior beauty, render it alone, of allliving forms, capable of fully manifesting thought. … Fig. 2.— Stone Age. Therefore he copies the human body, and sculptureis born. We add : from this moment it may becalled statuary. But as the human mind required 4 ANCIENT SCULPTURE. the gradual training of ages before painting pro-duced what we call a picture, so a long period ofactual and mature…
Sculpture
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