Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... shapes in soft white quiver against a black ground among curling and uncurling spirals and counterspirals , all beautifully related to the shape of the vessel itself . In Late Minoan , about 1500 B.C. , the swirling shapes take on ...
... shapes in soft white quiver against a black ground among curling and uncurling spirals and counterspirals , all beautifully related to the shape of the vessel itself . In Late Minoan , about 1500 B.C. , the swirling shapes take on ...
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... shapes , whose parallel striations are derived from the stripes of the tiger , the feathers of the eagle , and apparently the shapes of grasses below . An indication of the immense 345. Scythian plaque with animal interlace , from the ...
... shapes , whose parallel striations are derived from the stripes of the tiger , the feathers of the eagle , and apparently the shapes of grasses below . An indication of the immense 345. Scythian plaque with animal interlace , from the ...
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... shape of a column , but not its function , in contrast to the maidens of the Erechtheion , for example ( see fig . 201 ) , who took over the function of columns without relinquishing their own shapes . Calm has settled over the scene ...
... shape of a column , but not its function , in contrast to the maidens of the Erechtheion , for example ( see fig . 201 ) , who took over the function of columns without relinquishing their own shapes . Calm has settled over the scene ...
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