drapery, n.All

Drapery (n.) such ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as the mantle is like a house in which a person is free to move: fastened at one point, it falls into folds by its own weight.

Drapery (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠sculpture is not a covering but a means of showing the form: the understanding infers the body from the folds, as it infers depth from foreshortening.

Drapery (n.) counts ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as art only when it is architecture: body is one thing and clothing another, and the latter must come into its own freedom.