Daedalus, or, The causes and principles of the excellence of Greek sculpture (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, & Roberts · leaf 317
247 PERSPECTIVE. Halicarnassian frieze is very remarkable, as showing how easily the eye may be deceived, and how cautions we should be in discovering errors in the great masters of antiquity. Any one looking at … this figure would say that the left leg is considerably shorter than the right : but the contrary is the fact. The eye naturally makes comparison between the lines A B and A C : but if instead of doing this we measure the left thigh from the patella B to the superior spinous process of the ilium,…
Sculpture, Greek · Art
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