English: Development of the expression of three-dimensional form. The primitive draughtsman is at first bound by the silhouette. Later, he desires to fill out the interior, but this cannot be done without in great part modifying his contour lines, because they are generally merely indications of the disappearing and reappearing inner modelling, i.e. of the figure’s third dimension. Finally, the draughtsman in full possession of a feeling for the corporeity of the object will determine his contour entirely from within, a procedure which is the exact opposite to that of his first beginnings.
Left: From a Greek vase in the British Museum (E. 46). Center: From Bulletino arch. Napol. (1843, tom. 1, tav. 7).
Right: From a drawing by Michelangelo (1854, 5, 13, i.). Print Room, British Museum).
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