Wonders of sculpture . as a tree trunk in whitemarble, a capital represented the sprouting ofbranches and leaves. Gradually, however, arch-tecture became perfected, embellished, transfigured ;it became an art, and from the useful sprang thebeautiful. At the same time, sculpture insensiblyattained to importance and independence. Relics of the first crude efforts at sculpture anddrawing have been preserved to us from the StoneAge in the clumsy carvings on rocks or bones foundin caverns, once occupied by the men of thatremote period, and in the ruins of those lake citieswhich are almost as ancien
Wonders of sculpture . as a tree trunk in whitemarble, a capital represented the sprouting ofbranches and leaves. Gradually, however, arch-tecture became perfected, embellished, transfigured ;it became an art, and from the useful sprang thebeautiful. At the same time, sculpture insensiblyattained to importance and independence. Relics of the first crude efforts at sculpture anddrawing have been preserved to us from the StoneAge in the clumsy carvings on rocks or bones foundin caverns, once occupied by the men of thatremote period, and in the ruins of those lake citieswhich are almost as ancient as the caves whichsheltered the first inhabitants of our planet. Sculpture, as an art, gradually advanced as manbecame interested in the study of organised nature,of animals, and, finally, of himself. He was nolonger content to represent things, he endeavoured ANCIENT SCULPTULE. to imitate living creatures, and to reproduce hisown im: ^e. After admiring the universe, saysM Charles Blanc, man began to contemplate him-. Fig. I.—Stone Age. self ; he realised that the human form is adaptedto the spirit, that it is, so to speak, its clothing ;that its proportions, its symmetry, its ease ofmotion, its superior beauty, render it alone, of allliving forms, capable of fully manifesting
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