Romanticism sacrifices breadth to character.

Classic art deals more triumphantly with the body, because the body gains by being broadly treated.

Romantic art deals more triumphantly with the face, because the features lose by being broadly treated.
This brings me back to Mr.Ruskin, who, in another of his treatises, condemns Michelangelo for a want of variety, beauty, feeling, in his heads and faces.

Were this the case, Michelangelo would have little claim to rank as one of the world's chief artists.

We have admitted that the Italians did not produce such perfectly beautiful bodes and limbs as the Greeks did, and have agreed that the Greeks produced less perfectly beautiful faces than the Italians.