Art: Magic form, and fantasy, ancient world, Middle Ages |
From inside the book
Results 1-2 of 2
Page 18
... Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck presents in a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece ( fig . 3 ) a view of rocky outcroppings and vegetation similar in structure to that of Giotto's fresco , but in a manner anyone today would easily call ...
... Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck presents in a panel from the Ghent Altarpiece ( fig . 3 ) a view of rocky outcroppings and vegetation similar in structure to that of Giotto's fresco , but in a manner anyone today would easily call ...
Page 26
... , medieval English , and Netherlandish art have resulted from what we might term destruction for anti - iconographic purposes , even when the very groups carrying out the destruction nonetheless encouraged the pro- 26 INTRODUCTION.
... , medieval English , and Netherlandish art have resulted from what we might term destruction for anti - iconographic purposes , even when the very groups carrying out the destruction nonetheless encouraged the pro- 26 INTRODUCTION.
Common terms and phrases
Acropolis ancient appear apse arcade Archaic arches architect architecture artists Athens B.C. Marble barrel vault Basilica beautiful bronze building built buttresses Byzantine capitals Carolingian carved Çatal Hüyük Cathedral central century B.C. choir Christ church Classical clerestory colonnade color columns Corinthian culture decorated dome Doric drapery Early Christian Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Etruscan eyes façade feet figures flanked France fresco frieze gold Gospels Gothic Greece Greek groin vaults Hagia Sophia head height Hellenistic human illuminated images imperial interior Islamic Italian Italy king later light limestone manuscripts Mesopotamia Mesopotamian Middle Ages Minoan mosaic Mosque Museo Museum nave original ornament Ottonian Paestum painters Palace Parthenon pediment period piers Polykleitos portal portrait relief Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome roof Saint Saqqara scenes sculpture shapes shows side aisles Sopoćani space statue stone structure style surface symbols Temple tion tomb towers tradition Trajan transept vase vaults wall paintings westwork