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... appears ; i.e. , when encoun- tered openly , things appear as appearing in part , as re- vealing and concealing themselves . If to the uneducated eye the sun appears to be smaller than it is , this can be corrected only by educating the ...
... appears ; i.e. , when encoun- tered openly , things appear as appearing in part , as re- vealing and concealing themselves . If to the uneducated eye the sun appears to be smaller than it is , this can be corrected only by educating the ...
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... appear in niches sunk in the wall or lean forward in the interior curves of arches . The 20th - centu- ry Austrian scholar Otto Demus , in studies on the aesthet- ics of middle Byzantine mosaic art , has coined the term space icons for ...
... appear in niches sunk in the wall or lean forward in the interior curves of arches . The 20th - centu- ry Austrian scholar Otto Demus , in studies on the aesthet- ics of middle Byzantine mosaic art , has coined the term space icons for ...
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... appear powerful , threatening , bestial . The range of shots for artistic purposes is from an extreme long shot ( the widest view on the smallest scale ) , with houses or ships appearing as tiny dots on the horizon , through medium ...
... appear powerful , threatening , bestial . The range of shots for artistic purposes is from an extreme long shot ( the widest view on the smallest scale ) , with houses or ships appearing as tiny dots on the horizon , through medium ...
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