15 Q
we wish to see in the movements of your figures?
This
advice of the
philosophers was felt by the
sculptors,
and
the
Athenian
marbles
are
the
advice.
faithful records of the efficacy of that
That you
distinctly
maY
perceive
and
variably
distinguish
What
we
mean
by
aPP1'0.
priate character in art, particularly in sculpture,
I would class with these sculptures, the Hercules,
the Apollo,
the Venus,
the
Laocoon,
and
the
Gladiator.
In
these
examples
you
will
[ind
what
is
aPP1'0priate
in
character
to
subject:
united
with
correctness
of
outline ;
and
it
is
this
combination
of
truths
which
has
arrested
the attention
of
an
admiring world,
CV81"
since
they were
produced ;
and
which will attract to
them the admiration of after ages, so long as
the Workings of the mind on the external form
can be contemplated and understood.
Now let us see what works there
are
since
the revival of art in the modern world, which rest
on the same basis of
3-PP1'0priate
character
and
with those of the ancient
correctness of outline,
Greeks.