Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 1 |
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... style contrasting deliberate- ly with the uncanny precision of the architecture . A grand room still in place in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii ( fig . 253 ) shows another aspect of Second Style illusionism . The actual walls ...
... style contrasting deliberate- ly with the uncanny precision of the architecture . A grand room still in place in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii ( fig . 253 ) shows another aspect of Second Style illusionism . The actual walls ...
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... style is matched by the sprightly drawing and the delicate and transparent colors . The strongest contrast to this ... style in which these terrible beasts are drawn is intensified by the harsh coloring of the background rectangles : red ...
... style is matched by the sprightly drawing and the delicate and transparent colors . The strongest contrast to this ... style in which these terrible beasts are drawn is intensified by the harsh coloring of the background rectangles : red ...
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... style of the medieval buildings surrounding them seemed so barbaric in comparison with the beauty of Roman architecture that they believed this style could have been imported into Classical Italy only by the Vandals , the Goths , the ...
... style of the medieval buildings surrounding them seemed so barbaric in comparison with the beauty of Roman architecture that they believed this style could have been imported into Classical Italy only by the Vandals , the Goths , the ...
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