lacing-on

Updated: May 10, 2025

The master is pre-eminent for the resolution, the ease and quickness, with which he reproduces instantaneous motion the lacing-on of armour, with the head bent back so stately the fainting lady the embrace, rapid as the kiss caught, with death itself, from dying lips the momentary conjunction of mirrors and polished armour and still water, by which all the sides of a solid image are presented at once, solving that casuistical question whether painting can present an object as completely as sculpture.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry