108
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subsequently
directed.
The
antient
sculp-
tors
uniformly
seemed
to
consider
the
human
figure
35
the chief
object,
and sacrificed,
to give
it
effect,
the
proportions of
inferior parts.
The
the Monte Cavallo, in the
author of the group on
opinion
of
West,
represented
the
horse
size, in
smaller than the natural
order to augment
the grandeur
of
the
man.
How far
this notion,
as the principle of a rule,
may be sound,
it would
be
unnecessary,
perhaps
impertinent,
to
inquire
here ;
but its justness as applicable
to
the
sculp-
tures
of
aI1tiC]Uity:
is
abundantly
verified
bY
the
bas-reliefs
brought
from
the
Parthenon
of
Athens.
It
indeed,
SO
admitted
Feature
of
antient
aft:
HS
to
be
regarded
bi
SOIIIC
critics,
HS
having
for
its
object
the
in sculp-
same effect
ture,
which
is
attained
by
light
and
shadow
in
painting,
picture,
the
Artist,
bY
H
judi-
cious obscurity,
magnitude of
so veils the
the car
in which
he
places
a victor,
that,
notwithstand-
ing
its
size,
it
may
not
apP473'Hr
the
principal
object ;
but this artifice is denied to the sculptor,
Who
is
necessitated
the size of
to diminish
those
things which are of least importance,
in order to
Ve
dignity
to
the
dominant
Hgures.
Raphael,