Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... Corinth and Athens . In the seventh century Corinthian vases , made of pale , yellowish clay , were most popular , but in the early Archaic period the orange - red pots of Athens took the lead . The miniature style of the Corinthian ...
... Corinth and Athens . In the seventh century Corinthian vases , made of pale , yellowish clay , were most popular , but in the early Archaic period the orange - red pots of Athens took the lead . The miniature style of the Corinthian ...
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... Corinthian order , henceforward the favorite in Roman buildings , is far richer than the austere Ionic of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis ( see fig . 247 ) , and its frieze , no longer blank , is enriched by the kind of delicately carved ...
... Corinthian order , henceforward the favorite in Roman buildings , is far richer than the austere Ionic of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis ( see fig . 247 ) , and its frieze , no longer blank , is enriched by the kind of delicately carved ...
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... Corinthian models . The arches , however , were strongly pointed , somewhat like those of the Great Mosque of Ibn Tulun . Above the arcades , in a space measured by the height of the sloping side - aisle roof , was the triforium ( so ...
... Corinthian models . The arches , however , were strongly pointed , somewhat like those of the Great Mosque of Ibn Tulun . Above the arcades , in a space measured by the height of the sloping side - aisle roof , was the triforium ( so ...
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