Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... marble , and to discover a way of exploiting its special quality by softening and veiling all transitions , abrading and polishing them until sharp edges could no 210. Mausoleum , Halikarnassos . c . 353 B.C. ( Architectural ...
... marble , and to discover a way of exploiting its special quality by softening and veiling all transitions , abrading and polishing them until sharp edges could no 210. Mausoleum , Halikarnassos . c . 353 B.C. ( Architectural ...
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... marble head was doubtless inserted in a statue made of another kind of marble , part of which was carved into drapery cover- ing the girl's head . The upper lids melt into the brows , so soft has definition become , and the lower lids ...
... marble head was doubtless inserted in a statue made of another kind of marble , part of which was carved into drapery cover- ing the girl's head . The upper lids melt into the brows , so soft has definition become , and the lower lids ...
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... marble in the mountains of Carrara , to the north of Pisa , as well as green marble from quarries near Prato , just to the west of Florence . While the use and emulation of classical elements and classical details in the Romanesque ...
... marble in the mountains of Carrara , to the north of Pisa , as well as green marble from quarries near Prato , just to the west of Florence . While the use and emulation of classical elements and classical details in the Romanesque ...
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