Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... Archaic smile " that lifts the corners of the mouth still eludes us , but this smile is characteristic of Archaic art throughout the sixth cen- tury , whenafter it soon disappears . While still proclaim- ing the original surface of the ...
... Archaic smile " that lifts the corners of the mouth still eludes us , but this smile is characteristic of Archaic art throughout the sixth cen- tury , whenafter it soon disappears . While still proclaim- ing the original surface of the ...
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... Archaic sculptures with their smooth surfaces and strong , active contours , we can arrive at some notion of what the style of Archaic monumental painting must have been . Its quality , however , can only be guessed at ; in this we are ...
... Archaic sculptures with their smooth surfaces and strong , active contours , we can arrive at some notion of what the style of Archaic monumental painting must have been . Its quality , however , can only be guessed at ; in this we are ...
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... Archaic Greece in centuries , while with Classical Greece we must think in decades . The Acropolis at Athens and Its Monuments The massive limestone rock dominating Athens had been in Mycenaean times the site of the royal palace , and ...
... Archaic Greece in centuries , while with Classical Greece we must think in decades . The Acropolis at Athens and Its Monuments The massive limestone rock dominating Athens had been in Mycenaean times the site of the royal palace , and ...
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