The Atlantic Monthly
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
The notion that Painting and Sculpture are concerned only with the "imitation of Nature,"--that is, with copying the forms and colors of existing things,--though so often expelled, as it were, with a pitchfork, persistently recurs, not only in popular talk, but in deliberate c...