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Excerpt from Mural or Monumental Decoration: Its Aims and Methods; Comprising Fresco, Encaustic, Water-Glass, Mosaic, Oil Painting
The simplicity, harmony, and balanced propor tion of Grecian monumental art indicate the nation''s aspirations after the perfect idea, its belief in the Phidian power of education gradually to mould a people intellectually and physically to an ideal standard, and to form the rough plastic humanity into men-heroes. The whole product of Grecian thought bears the stamp of high cul ture upon it, in its moderation, its completeness; and the intellectual precedence of antiquity is given to the nation which enthroned the Parthenon on a rock, which made its Temple ''to Wisdom a beacon seaward, and to the ages a very palace ''of art, compelling us to confess that the ancients, in this respect at least, attained to an excellence which we, with all our boasted progress, seem only doomed to beat about and fall short of.
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The simplicity, harmony, and balanced propor tion of Grecian monumental art indicate the nation''s aspirations after the perfect idea, its belief in the Phidian power of education gradually to mould a people intellectually and physically to an ideal standard, and to form the rough plastic humanity into men-heroes. The whole product of Grecian thought bears the stamp of high cul ture upon it, in its moderation, its completeness; and the intellectual precedence of antiquity is given to the nation which enthroned the Parthenon on a rock, which made its Temple ''to Wisdom a beacon seaward, and to the ages a very palace ''of art, compelling us to confess that the ancients, in this respect at least, attained to an excellence which we, with all our boasted progress, seem only doomed to beat about and fall short of.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
Contributors
Author
W. Cave Thomas
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780484142342
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 329
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Contributors
Author
W. Cave Thomas
Published Date -
ISBN - 9781333649548
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 331
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