Chapter 18 THE GREEK IDEAL BEAUTY.

On this important doctrine of art, of which Winckelmann says: "The ideal is as much more noble than the mechanical as the mind is superior to the body," I shall follow, so far as I can advantageously, the great writers on this subject, in order that the reader may have all the confidence in its recognised portions that authority can bestow, and tha

            
            

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022