The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Georg Hegel · en
[Footnote 98: That is, the spaces between the lower part of the cornice
and the uppermost slab of the entablature.]
[Footnote 99: The _coussinet_ is that part of the Ionic capital between
the abacus and quarter round, which serves to form the volute. There
are four volutes or spiral scrolls in the Ionic capital.]
[Footnote 100: The _mutule_ is the projecting block worked under the
corona of the Doric cornice.]
[Footnote 101: Hirt, _Gesch. der Baukunst_, I, S. 254.]
[Footnote 102: This must, I think, refer to the main moulding of the
architrave immediately resting on the column.]
[Footnote 103: Seneca, Ep. 90.]
[Footnote 104: Lit., "Is raised to infinitude."]
[Footnote 105: As it is, for example, by Greek capitals.]
[Footnote 106: Lit., "In its penetration into the most spiritual
(_innerste_, ideal) particularity."]
[Footnote 107: _Sich verselbstständigen._ Hegel means that the main
purpose of the exterior is expressed on the face of it.]
[Footnote 108: I presume the word _Durchbrechen_ is here used in its
specific architectural sense.]
[Footnote 109: _Ein Malen._]
[Footnote 110: _Keine in sich seyende Seele._ I presume Hegel means
that being an artificial fragment of Nature's landscape it lacks the
infinite horizon and the living relation to the whole.]
SUBSECTION II
SCULPTURE
INTRODUCTION
Over against the inorganic nature of Spirit, in the form we find given
it by art in architecture, Spirit opposes itself directly in the sense
that the work of art receives and displays spirituality as its actual
content. The necessity of this advance we have already adverted to. It
underlies the notion of Mind, which differentiates itself under the
twofold aspect of subjective self-substantive[111] existence and pure
objectivity. In this latter form of externality the ideal substance,
it is true, makes its appearance by virtue of the architectonic
treatment; such, however, does not amount to a complete transfusion
of the objective material, or a conversion of it into an entirely
adequate expression of Spirit (Mind), such as suffers it, and only it,
to appear. Consequently art withdraws itself from the inorganic realm,
which architecture, under its yoke of the laws of gravity, has striven
to bring nearer as a means of Spirit's expression, to that of the
Ideal, which forthwith then independently asserts itself in its more
lofty truth without this intermingling with what is inorganic. It is
during this, return passage of Spirit to its own native realm[112] from
out of the world of masses and material substance that we come across
_sculpture._