Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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Page 78
... eyes were filled with colored material , most likely shell and lapis lazuli held in by bitumen , which would have made the magical stare even more in- tense . The eyebrows were probably inlaid with bitumen and the hair plated with gold ...
... eyes were filled with colored material , most likely shell and lapis lazuli held in by bitumen , which would have made the magical stare even more in- tense . The eyebrows were probably inlaid with bitumen and the hair plated with gold ...
Page 227
... eyes are enlarged beyond all verisimil- itude . Carved with all the colorism of Antonine sculp- ture , even to the extent of a tiny fleck of marble having been left in each eye to represent the reflection of light in the transparent ...
... eyes are enlarged beyond all verisimil- itude . Carved with all the colorism of Antonine sculp- ture , even to the extent of a tiny fleck of marble having been left in each eye to represent the reflection of light in the transparent ...
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... eyes closed in death . John holds His left hand to his face , and the Virgin enfolds her dead son in her arms ; both faces are contorted with grief . The scene must have been painted at dizzying speed ; the authority of the brushstrokes ...
... eyes closed in death . John holds His left hand to his face , and the Virgin enfolds her dead son in her arms ; both faces are contorted with grief . The scene must have been painted at dizzying speed ; the authority of the brushstrokes ...
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