Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... light survives from the early Middle Ages . A similar contrast between abstraction in the state- ment of form and naturalism in the rendition of light appears in a picture in encaustic , which is at once one of the oldest - known ...
... light survives from the early Middle Ages . A similar contrast between abstraction in the state- ment of form and naturalism in the rendition of light appears in a picture in encaustic , which is at once one of the oldest - known ...
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... light , perhaps un- der the master's personal direction , in his frescoes in the Baroncelli Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence , probably dating from 1332-38 . In the fourteenth century natural light was always diffused and generalized ...
... light , perhaps un- der the master's personal direction , in his frescoes in the Baroncelli Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence , probably dating from 1332-38 . In the fourteenth century natural light was always diffused and generalized ...
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... light , but he presents the announcing angel in the midst of a wonderful display of light , which descends upon the shepherds who have fallen to the ground in amazement and lights the whole dark landscape with its radiance . We are here ...
... light , but he presents the announcing angel in the midst of a wonderful display of light , which descends upon the shepherds who have fallen to the ground in amazement and lights the whole dark landscape with its radiance . We are here ...
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