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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 2497378, member: 22602&quot;]About 4. The obverse design is too static for me. I like the reverse much better.</p><p><br /></p><p>The designer attempted a classically stable, triangular composition based on Renaissance paintings, such as Raphael&#039;s <i>Madonna of the Meadow</i>, which were becoming available to those in The States studying the field, whether through travel or publications. However, this ordinarily very strong design in a painting didn&#039;t translate well, I don&#039;t believe, to the format of a coin: there&#039;s little eye movement through the design and not much depth to the form of the figure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Compare the visual energy of the Walking Liberty Half or Mercury Dime obverse to see just how static and rather plain the Seated Liberty figure is (and the same could be said, of course, and has, for Barber&#039;s designs).</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not to say I don&#039;t appreciate these issues, though. I appreciate their visual quaintness in an historical sense, particularly the Barbers.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]529400[/ATTACH]</p><p>Raphael, <i>Madonna of the Meadow</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>PS: look at the similarity of Liberty&#039;s left arm holding the shield to the Madonna&#039;s arm holding the child and also the obvious foot jutting out in the lower right. He likely drew upon this very painting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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