Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... Carved wood covered with gold and inlaid with faience , glass paste , semiprecious stones , and silver , Mesopotamian Art TIGRIS EUPHRATES R MESOPOTAMIA SAUDI ARABIA MAP 6. of beautiful objects , displaying the taste of the imperial ...
... Carved wood covered with gold and inlaid with faience , glass paste , semiprecious stones , and silver , Mesopotamian Art TIGRIS EUPHRATES R MESOPOTAMIA SAUDI ARABIA MAP 6. of beautiful objects , displaying the taste of the imperial ...
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... carved by masters trained initially under Phidias in the sculpture of the Parthenon . The loveliest is the exquisite Victory Untying Her Sandal ( fig . 199 ) , in which the transparent drapery of the Phidian style is transformed into a ...
... carved by masters trained initially under Phidias in the sculpture of the Parthenon . The loveliest is the exquisite Victory Untying Her Sandal ( fig . 199 ) , in which the transparent drapery of the Phidian style is transformed into a ...
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... carved in low relief ; a golden urn con- taining the ashes of the emperor was placed within it after his death in A.D. 117. The column base was carved into a giant laurel wreath . In a spiral around the column winds a relief some six ...
... carved in low relief ; a golden urn con- taining the ashes of the emperor was placed within it after his death in A.D. 117. The column base was carved into a giant laurel wreath . In a spiral around the column winds a relief some six ...
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