Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... pediment was carved in high relief , approaching sculpture in the round . The cen- tral figure , so huge that she must kneel on her right knee in order to fit , is the Gorgon , Medusa , grinning hideously and sticking out her tongue ...
... pediment was carved in high relief , approaching sculpture in the round . The cen- tral figure , so huge that she must kneel on her right knee in order to fit , is the Gorgon , Medusa , grinning hideously and sticking out her tongue ...
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... pediment con- tains , again for the first time , actual groups of almost freestanding statues , carved in more or less the same scale , in poses progressively adjusted to the downward slope of the pediment . The intense activity of the ...
... pediment con- tains , again for the first time , actual groups of almost freestanding statues , carved in more or less the same scale , in poses progressively adjusted to the downward slope of the pediment . The intense activity of the ...
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... pediment of the Temple of Aphaia , Aegina . c . 510 B.C. Marble , height 41 " . Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek , Munich 162. Archer , from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia , Aegina . c . 490 B.C. Marble . height 31 ...
... pediment of the Temple of Aphaia , Aegina . c . 510 B.C. Marble , height 41 " . Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek , Munich 162. Archer , from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia , Aegina . c . 490 B.C. Marble . height 31 ...
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