Excerpt from Lectures on Phrenology I might say that the arts individually are interested in phrenology, but the arts of sculpture and painting, especially historical and portrait painting. Some painters pay great attention to the shape and appearance of the face, and they ask, is not this a good likeness But they omit entirely the shape of the head, which to me appears of as much importance as the other. Now take an example, here is the likeness of a person. (holding up a painting on pasteboard, so divided that the head ...
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Excerpt from Lectures on Phrenology I might say that the arts individually are interested in phrenology, but the arts of sculpture and painting, especially historical and portrait painting. Some painters pay great attention to the shape and appearance of the face, and they ask, is not this a good likeness But they omit entirely the shape of the head, which to me appears of as much importance as the other. Now take an example, here is the likeness of a person. (holding up a painting on pasteboard, so divided that the head might be separated from the face.) Now I will let the same face remain, and change the figure of the head. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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