Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... Hagia Sophia itself in Istanbul's romantic skyline of domes and minarets . Although the interiors of the Ottoman central - plan mosques seem heavy when compared with the seraphic lightness of Hagia Sophia , their exteriors , such as ...
... Hagia Sophia itself in Istanbul's romantic skyline of domes and minarets . Although the interiors of the Ottoman central - plan mosques seem heavy when compared with the seraphic lightness of Hagia Sophia , their exteriors , such as ...
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... Hagia Sophia . The light from the windows of the drum illuminates the rain- bow circle in which the colossal Christ appears , his face worn by suffering ( " Surely he hath borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows , " Isa . 53 : 4 ) ...
... Hagia Sophia . The light from the windows of the drum illuminates the rain- bow circle in which the colossal Christ appears , his face worn by suffering ( " Surely he hath borne our griefs , and carried our sorrows , " Isa . 53 : 4 ) ...
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... Hagia Sophia , Istanbul ( 426 ) Lindau Gospels ( colorplate 49 ) Bible of Charles the Bald ( colorplate 48 ) Paris Psalter ( colorplate 59 ) SCULPTURE ARCHITECTURE Great Mosque of al - Mutawakkil , Samarra ( 354 , 355 ) Mosque of Ibn ...
... Hagia Sophia , Istanbul ( 426 ) Lindau Gospels ( colorplate 49 ) Bible of Charles the Bald ( colorplate 48 ) Paris Psalter ( colorplate 59 ) SCULPTURE ARCHITECTURE Great Mosque of al - Mutawakkil , Samarra ( 354 , 355 ) Mosque of Ibn ...
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