. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. -, in The School ofAthens, Fig. 156, page 249, Raphael has placed not onlyGreek philosophers living at different periods but the Per-sian Zoroaster, and even, in the largest figures at the ex-treme right, himself with his master, Perugino. Whetherthese paintings violate the principle of Lessing, and,whether, if they do, they deserve censure, is of course, anopen question. Some would argue that those of Kaul-bach and Raphael at least do not. They would say thatto bring together characters living
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. -, in The School ofAthens, Fig. 156, page 249, Raphael has placed not onlyGreek philosophers living at different periods but the Per-sian Zoroaster, and even, in the largest figures at the ex-treme right, himself with his master, Perugino. Whetherthese paintings violate the principle of Lessing, and,whether, if they do, they deserve censure, is of course, anopen question. Some would argue that those of Kaul-bach and Raphael at least do not. They would say thatto bring together characters living at different periodsinvolves no violation of Lessings principle because it is. 250 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. possible and probable that the imagination, in summoningbefore its vision, the Destruction of Jerusalem, or TheReformation, or The School of Athens, would do thesame. They would argue, besides this, on the principlethat the proof of the pudding is the eating, that, as afact, these very pictures are greatly admired, and thereforeactually do satisfy aesthetic tastes. These considerations suggest that, underlying Lcssingstheory, may be a principle more important than thatwhich is fulfilled as a result of a mere literal interpreta-tion of it. A picture is something perceptible in a momentof time. To represent with accuracy anything true tothis condition, all the aesthetic interest attaching to itsform or to its significance should be suggested throughfactors all of which are supposably perceptible at thismoment. In the Presentation at the Temple by Luini,mentioned on page 248, this principle is clearly violated ;because it is impossible to suppos
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