. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. 6, 3S0, 386, 3S7, 397, 407, highest quality ; and it is then, too, as shown in the carvedface of the cave in Fig. 171, page 315, and in the carvedpillars of the caves interior in Fig. 172, page 317, and asexplained on page 316, that we have the beginnings of theart of architecture. But caves are not the only natural forms of shelter whichcan be rendered artistic. Fig. 20S, page 374, shows us anatural way of using the trunks of trees with coverings so 1^6 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. a
. Painting, sculpture, and architecture as representative arts : an essay in comparative aesthetics. 6, 3S0, 386, 3S7, 397, 407, highest quality ; and it is then, too, as shown in the carvedface of the cave in Fig. 171, page 315, and in the carvedpillars of the caves interior in Fig. 172, page 317, and asexplained on page 316, that we have the beginnings of theart of architecture. But caves are not the only natural forms of shelter whichcan be rendered artistic. Fig. 20S, page 374, shows us anatural way of using the trunks of trees with coverings so 1^6 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. as to shield from sunshine and shed water. Fig. 209, page375, shows us what is evidently only an artistic develop-ment of the same forms. Is it necessary to argue thatthe motive which, as in Figs. 171 and 172, caused men tocarve the stone of the caves without or within, so as torepresent wooden beams and pillars, was exactly the sameas that which caused the architects of artistic buildingslike those in Fig. 209 to represent in stone the woodenmethods of construction, such as are seen in Fie- FIQ. 210.—TENT OF EASTERN pages 376, 386. Look, again, at the shape of the tent in Fig. 210, page376; it is taken from CasselTs Across Thibet, andrepresents the tent ordinarily used all over Asia look at the shape of the roofs in Fig. 211, page shape will be found repeated in every temple andpalace in eastern Asia, almost without exception. More-over, whenever we visit palaces or temples in that part ofthe world, we find, as a rule, not one large structure, but,instead of this, in one large enclosure, dozens and scoresof structures, none of them of superlative size. This fact KEPRESENTATJON OF MATERIAL SURROUNDINGS. 377 of itself, but especially in connection with the saggingroofs, would be enough to enable us to detect the sourcefrom which these forms have developed, even aside fromthe descrfption in the Old Testament of the reproductionnot only, but the
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