This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...always striving after new beauty, never satisfied, even in its decadence trying for new forms of splendour never before achieved. Therein lies the secret of Greek greatness. There was something of the same eager idealism, though of a more homely kind, in the Romans who followed the Greeks as the foremost people of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...always striving after new beauty, never satisfied, even in its decadence trying for new forms of splendour never before achieved. Therein lies the secret of Greek greatness. There was something of the same eager idealism, though of a more homely kind, in the Romans who followed the Greeks as the foremost people of the world. They realized the beauty of the Greek art; but if one is tempted to say it satisfied them, let him study a little some of the myriad fragments of Roman friezes that remain to us. They are unsurpassed. To be sure, they use the acanthus--a Greek form, and, perhaps, the branching scroll, also a Greek form. But there is about them a splendour of light and shade, a forceful modelling, a saving naturalism, that is new. True, the Romans could never carve a Parthenon frieze or the Phidian fragments; but on buildings of the great scale the Romans loved, it was an impossibility to use figure sculpture; sixty feet of perfectly sculptured figures are wonderful; three hundred feet would be monotony. That the Romans had a different theory from that of the Greeks is no argument against it; and the ornament of the mediaeval and modern world owes infinitely more to the Romans than to the Greeks. In particular, the Romans were the first people to See the Plate opposite page 170. use natural foliage extensively as ornament, treated in a natural way; and the first people to appreciate the value of varied relief in carved ornament. The relief in all Roman ornament is in places high and bold, at other times almost dying into the background; and the resulting light and shade, though with less precision, perhaps, than Greek relief, has a life and variety which the Greek never knew. 1 It is just at these two points that our modern ornament is lacking. We have l...
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