relation to light, light and shade, sadness, gaiety or serenity, etc. Our compositions must be formed of these elements.
On the Acropolis at Athens the temples are turned towards one another, making an enclosure, as it were, which the eye readily embraces; and the sea which composes with the architraves, etc. This is to compose with the finite resources
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HADRIAN'S VILLA, ROME
of an art full of dangerous riches out of which beauty can only come when they are brought into order.
At Hadrian's Villa the levels are established in accordance with the Campagna; the mountains support the composition, which indeed is based upon them.
In the Forum of Pompeii, with its vistas of each building in relation to the whole and to every detail, there is a grouping of varied interest constantly renewed.
