Mural or Monumental Decoration: Its Aims and Methods; Comprising Fresco, Encaustic, Water-Glass, Mosaic, Oil Painting —— Its Aims and Methods; Comprising Fresco, Encaustic, Water-Glass, Mosaic, Oil Painting

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ISBN: 9781333649548 出版年：2018 页码：331 W Cave Thomas Forgotten Books

The simplicity, harmony, and balanced propor tion of Grecian monumental art indicate the nation's aspirations after the perfect idea, its belief in the Phidian power of education gradually to mould a people intellectually and physically to an ideal standard, and to form the rough plastic humanity into men-heroes. The whole product of Grecian thought bears the stamp of high cul ture upon it, in its moderation, its completeness; and the intellectual precedence of antiquity is given to the nation which enthroned the Parthenon on a rock, which made its Temple 'to Wisdom a beacon seaward, and to the ages a very palace 'of art, compelling us to confess that the ancients, in this respect at least, attained to an excellence which we, with all our boasted progress, seem only doomed to beat about and fall short of.