The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . WCCsTE-BAJSID SUEU. ANCiL£ QUOINS Cff TM& 1STSTOBSf OF THE. FAEiNEStBOACE ,Sr that all straight lines having a common direction if sufficiently prolongedappear to meet in a point, i. e., radiate from it (Illustration 31). Leonardoda Vinci employed this principle of perspective in his Last Supper to drawthe spectators eye to the pictures central figure, the point of sight tow^ards Ill CHANGELESS CHANGE 45 which the lines of the walls and ceiling con-verge centering in the head of Christ. Puvisde Chavannes, in his Bost
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . WCCsTE-BAJSID SUEU. ANCiL£ QUOINS Cff TM& 1STSTOBSf OF THE. FAEiNEStBOACE ,Sr that all straight lines having a common direction if sufficiently prolongedappear to meet in a point, i. e., radiate from it (Illustration 31). Leonardoda Vinci employed this principle of perspective in his Last Supper to drawthe spectators eye to the pictures central figure, the point of sight tow^ards Ill CHANGELESS CHANGE 45 which the lines of the walls and ceiling con-verge centering in the head of Christ. Puvisde Chavannes, in his Boston Library decora-tion, leads the eye, by a system of triangula-tion, to the small figure of the Genius ofEnlightenment above the central door (Illus-tration 32) ; and Ruskin, in his Elements ofDrawing, has shown how artfully Turnerarranged some of his composition to attractattention to a focal point. This law of Radiation enters largely intoarchitecture. The Colosseum, based upon the.
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