Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... beauty . The broad , smooth sur- faces of the skin are striated with parallel grooves representing ritual scars and are perforated around the mouth with holes possibly intended for the insertion of jewels . Probably , these heads were ...
... beauty . The broad , smooth sur- faces of the skin are striated with parallel grooves representing ritual scars and are perforated around the mouth with holes possibly intended for the insertion of jewels . Probably , these heads were ...
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... beauty . Sculpture Significantly enough , the most impressive witnesses to the formative period of Roman Republican art that have come down to us are the portraits of these sturdy Romans themselves . We have already seen the bronze ...
... beauty . Sculpture Significantly enough , the most impressive witnesses to the formative period of Roman Republican art that have come down to us are the portraits of these sturdy Romans themselves . We have already seen the bronze ...
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... beauty , as in the numerous ivory plaques on which he carved scenes from the Old and New Testaments . One of the finest pan- els ( fig . 331 ) , dating from the late fourth or early fifth century , shows at the bottom right the Three ...
... beauty , as in the numerous ivory plaques on which he carved scenes from the Old and New Testaments . One of the finest pan- els ( fig . 331 ) , dating from the late fourth or early fifth century , shows at the bottom right the Three ...
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