Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... color . Under the in- fluence of marble statues and capitals from which the original coloring leached out centuries ... color ( see colorplate 21 ) . If the well - known Greek sense of harmony and of the fitness of things gives us any ...
... color . Under the in- fluence of marble statues and capitals from which the original coloring leached out centuries ... color ( see colorplate 21 ) . If the well - known Greek sense of harmony and of the fitness of things gives us any ...
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... color had been dis- solved . This gave otherwise very brilliant tones an effect of greater depth and resonance , much like the soft colors transmitted by sunlight at certain times of day . We do at least possess occasional attempts ...
... color had been dis- solved . This gave otherwise very brilliant tones an effect of greater depth and resonance , much like the soft colors transmitted by sunlight at certain times of day . We do at least possess occasional attempts ...
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... colors , and the sky is striped with gold clouds against the blue and white tesserae . The construction of the almost cylindrical figures suggests the Tetrarchs ( see colorplate 33 ) , but the use of color to build up these and the ...
... colors , and the sky is striped with gold clouds against the blue and white tesserae . The construction of the almost cylindrical figures suggests the Tetrarchs ( see colorplate 33 ) , but the use of color to build up these and the ...
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