sister arts

"Experimental psychologists have invented a game in which subjects are asked to say of three apparently disparate items which two they consider more similar. Faced with a flower still life, a bunch of real flowers and a portrait miniature, an art historian is likely to group the two paintings together while a gardener may select the flowers as closest to the still life. The way in which experiences are grouped, in other words, tells us a good deal about the way anyone categorizes his world."
Gombrich em Review of Mario Praz, Mnemosyne, para ler, entre muitos outros em Gombrich arquive.