 It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art,...  Select British Classics - Page 891803Full view - About this book
 | George B. Handley - 2010 - 457 pages
...nature, "painting must lose its rank and be no longer considered as a liberal art and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the...slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best" (qtd. in Landow 52). The anthropocentrism in this critique denigrates humanity's attention to the contours... | |
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