The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . iejancjuIhAR^ jYNonrw cp thh lAfT JUDqMENT,p: iyi*T01i3rU1BD THE- EMPUDYMBNT OF THE. E/QUILATBRAL/v-TTilANQLL IN PAlNTINO-v,. THE, LAST JUPPtRi, CE/NTER, THE) MADONNA DEb «ACCO, BYONLY (RiiTORfD) BY tAVINCI ANDUtA Dbb JARTTO 55 54 sentiment and affectationof the times, but alsoin the abandonment bythe artists of thoseobscurely geometricalarrangements and group-ings which, in the worksof the greatest masters,so satisfy the eye andhaunt the memory ofthe beholder (Illustra-tions 55, 56). Sculpture, even morethan p
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . iejancjuIhAR^ jYNonrw cp thh lAfT JUDqMENT,p: iyi*T01i3rU1BD THE- EMPUDYMBNT OF THE. E/QUILATBRAL/v-TTilANQLL IN PAlNTINO-v,. THE, LAST JUPPtRi, CE/NTER, THE) MADONNA DEb «ACCO, BYONLY (RiiTORfD) BY tAVINCI ANDUtA Dbb JARTTO 55 54 sentiment and affectationof the times, but alsoin the abandonment bythe artists of thoseobscurely geometricalarrangements and group-ings which, in the worksof the greatest masters,so satisfy the eye andhaunt the memory ofthe beholder (Illustra-tions 55, 56). Sculpture, even morethan painting, is basedon geometry. The colos-si of Egypt, the bas-reliefs of Assyria, thefigured pediments andmetopes of the templesof Greece, the carvedtombs of Ravenna, theDelia Robbia lunettes,the sculptured tympaniof Gothic church portals, LATENT GEOMETRY 63
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