Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 163
ng to the faculties of observation offered to the early Greek artist is to be found in the case of the human eye. Every one who has looked at early vase-paintings will have observed that in them, when a face is drawn in profile, the eye is turned full to the spectator. The male eye, bold and full,… … $> h i Fig. 33. — Male and female eye. from the full-face drawing to a rendering in outline. Decade by decade the drawing of the eye, alike on vases and in reliefs, changes in the direction of nature, but complete naturalism is never reached. On the Parthenon frieze, for example, the eyes of the…
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