Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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Page 66
... scenes are represented ; the paint- ings are not biographical . Within the conventional struc- ture of Egyptian style , these scenes describe in en- cyclopedic fashion all the elements of what we know to be taking place , not just the ...
... scenes are represented ; the paint- ings are not biographical . Within the conventional struc- ture of Egyptian style , these scenes describe in en- cyclopedic fashion all the elements of what we know to be taking place , not just the ...
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... scene . Below , to the left , Joshua sends out two spies to Jericho , this town also represented like those on the Column of Trajan . In both scenes Joshua is dressed as a Roman general , and the parallels with the Column of Trajan in ...
... scene . Below , to the left , Joshua sends out two spies to Jericho , this town also represented like those on the Column of Trajan . In both scenes Joshua is dressed as a Roman general , and the parallels with the Column of Trajan in ...
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... scenes of the Passion with a directness and intensity of emotion not seen in Eastern art since the days of the ... scene must have been painted at dizzying speed ; the authority of the brushstrokes and the brilliant handling of light on ...
... scenes of the Passion with a directness and intensity of emotion not seen in Eastern art since the days of the ... scene must have been painted at dizzying speed ; the authority of the brushstrokes and the brilliant handling of light on ...
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