. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . and massing, to be considered pre-sently, can be secured when the twooperate conjointly. In sculpture the methods underconsideration are equally prevalentand effective. When there are manyfigures, the same principles apply asin painting, excepting, of course, caseswhere there is color. See the relief,now in the , entitled MithrasStabbing the Bull, Fig. 54, page 179. FIG. 17.—STATUE OF LEDA, AT FLO
. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . and massing, to be considered pre-sently, can be secured when the twooperate conjointly. In sculpture the methods underconsideration are equally prevalentand effective. When there are manyfigures, the same principles apply asin painting, excepting, of course, caseswhere there is color. See the relief,now in the , entitled MithrasStabbing the Bull, Fig. 54, page 179. FIG. 17.—STATUE OF LEDA, AT pages 74, S5. 179, 2S9. When, in eitherpainting or sculpt-ure, the whole workcontains but a sin-gle figure, the rela-tive prominence ofmerely differentparts of this, mustshow the influenceof these methods. The Led a,from the statue at. FIG. 18.—STATUE OF TITUS, IN THE LOUVRE. See pages 75, 85, 120, iSo, 2S9. PRINCIPALITY IN SCULPTURE. 75 Florence, Fig. 17, page 74, with the hand before the breast,about which also all the outlines of the unresisting formseem to centre, gives principality to the heart, the seat ofthe affections. The erect head on the thick neck andbroad shoulders of the Titus in the Louvre, Fig. 18,page 74, in connection with the commanding gesture,gives principality to these, the seat of the directing power,or of authority. Theequally erect but morebuoyant figure of the Diana of the Louvre,as she speeds to thechase, Fig. 19, givesprincipality t o themental purpose subord-inating to itself everytendency t o mentalweariness. The Mer-cury, found at Hercu-laneum, Fig. 20, page j6,with head bending tow-ard the trunk and limbs,shows the mind subor-dinated, but, owing tohis evident reluctance,only temporarily subor-dinated to the bodilycondition. \\\ a different way, because devoid of anysuggestions of me
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