The New Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 2Encyclopædia Britannica, 1992 - 32 pages |
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Page 336
... painting was one of the earliest ways in which man sought to ex- press his own personality and his emerging understanding of an existence beyond the material world . Unlike music and dance , however , examples of early forms of painting ...
... painting was one of the earliest ways in which man sought to ex- press his own personality and his emerging understanding of an existence beyond the material world . Unlike music and dance , however , examples of early forms of painting ...
Page 342
... painter ; both he and Polygnotus worked in Athens and Delphi . Ancient de- scriptions of their work dwell on features and moods that are easy to envisage in the light of extant contemporary vase painting and the Olympia sculptures , to ...
... painter ; both he and Polygnotus worked in Athens and Delphi . Ancient de- scriptions of their work dwell on features and moods that are easy to envisage in the light of extant contemporary vase painting and the Olympia sculptures , to ...
Page 374
... painting , sculpture , and architecture are combined together into a single , unified , and harmonious ensem- ble - is of overwhelming importance . Painting in Austria flourished , and Franz Anton Maulbertsch is arguably the greatest ...
... painting , sculpture , and architecture are combined together into a single , unified , and harmonious ensem- ble - is of overwhelming importance . Painting in Austria flourished , and Franz Anton Maulbertsch is arguably the greatest ...
Contents
NUMBER GAMES and Other Mathematical Recreations | 1 |
NUMBER THEORY | 14 |
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS | 38 |
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