The Eagle's Nest

Bücher

Angebote / Angebote:

Excerpt from The Eagle's Nest: Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford in Lent Term, 1872Botticelli and Holbein studied the face first, and the limbs secondarily, and the works they have left are there fore without exception precious, yet saddened and cor rupted by the in¿uence which the contemporary masters of body-drawing exercised on them, and at last eclipsed by their false fame. I purpose, therefore, In my next course of lectures, to explain the relation of these two draughts men to other masters of design, and of engraving.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.