Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... abstract art may be felt as beautiful entirely in and for itself . In every country and period there have been visual configurations that are difficult or even impossible to trace to any overt symbolic purpose , yet people have ordered ...
... abstract art may be felt as beautiful entirely in and for itself . In every country and period there have been visual configurations that are difficult or even impossible to trace to any overt symbolic purpose , yet people have ordered ...
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... abstract analysis . Arithmetic and geometry were discovered , including principles still valid and methods still taught . Optics , perspective , and astronomy made remarkable beginnings , and scientific calendars were devised ...
... abstract analysis . Arithmetic and geometry were discovered , including principles still valid and methods still taught . Optics , perspective , and astronomy made remarkable beginnings , and scientific calendars were devised ...
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... abstract . On a mountain formed of conventionalized rocks stands a colossal angel , his man- tle floating against the gold , ready to announce to the awestruck shepherds the " good tidings of great joy . " Yet all seem more overcome ...
... abstract . On a mountain formed of conventionalized rocks stands a colossal angel , his man- tle floating against the gold , ready to announce to the awestruck shepherds the " good tidings of great joy . " Yet all seem more overcome ...
Contents
FOREWORD PAGE | 11 |
Paleolithic Art Old Stone Age 30000 | 26 |
Neolithic Art New Stone Age 8000 | 32 |
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Abbey Church Acropolis ancient angels appear apse arcade Archaeological Museum Archaic arches architect architecture artists Athens B.C. Marble barrel vaults basilica beautiful bronze building built buttresses Byzantine capitals Carolingian carved Çatal Hüyük Cathedral Cathedral of Chartres central century B.C. Chapel choir Christ Classical clerestory colonnade colonnettes color colorplate columns Corinthian decorated dome Doric drapery dynasty earliest Early Christian Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Etruscan façade figures France frescoes frieze gold Gothic Greek groin vaults Hagia Sophia head height Hellenistic Illumination imperial interior Italian Italy king later light limestone Mesopotamia Middle Ages Minoan mosaics Mosque Museo Mycenae nave original ornament Ottonian painter palace panel pediment period piers portal pose Reims relief Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome roof Saint Saqqara scenes sculpture shapes shows side aisles space statues stone structure style surface Temple tion tomb towers tracery tradition Trajan transept vase wall paintings westwork Zeus