Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... Parthenon on the Acropolis H 187. IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES . The Parthenon ( view from the west and north ) . c . 447-432 B.C. The Acropolis , Athens never have been seen in ancient times from what we would today call a satisfactory ...
... Parthenon on the Acropolis H 187. IKTINOS and KALLIKRATES . The Parthenon ( view from the west and north ) . c . 447-432 B.C. The Acropolis , Athens never have been seen in ancient times from what we would today call a satisfactory ...
Page 145
... Parthenon appears to have been the architect Iktinos , working in a still imperfectly un- derstood partnership with Kallikrates . Construction began in 447 B.C. and was finished in the extraordinarily brief time of nine years , save for ...
... Parthenon appears to have been the architect Iktinos , working in a still imperfectly un- derstood partnership with Kallikrates . Construction began in 447 B.C. and was finished in the extraordinarily brief time of nine years , save for ...
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... Parthenon is consistent with the architec- ture of the building and with the literary accounts of Phidias ' style . He invented new ways of combining figures on foot and on horseback into free action groups ; he was responsible for a ...
... Parthenon is consistent with the architec- ture of the building and with the literary accounts of Phidias ' style . He invented new ways of combining figures on foot and on horseback into free action groups ; he was responsible for a ...
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