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Page 360
... vision with the 24 elders , is a particularly brilliant demonstration of how devices of style can so transform the objects of nature that they seem entirely purged of terrestriality ( Figure 131 , left ) . All the forms are suspended in ...
... vision with the 24 elders , is a particularly brilliant demonstration of how devices of style can so transform the objects of nature that they seem entirely purged of terrestriality ( Figure 131 , left ) . All the forms are suspended in ...
Page 477
... vision . The influence was nonetheless widespread and fertile ; the system in itself supplied a clarity that painters needed . When the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886 , Neo - Impres- sionism was in the ascendant ...
... vision . The influence was nonetheless widespread and fertile ; the system in itself supplied a clarity that painters needed . When the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886 , Neo - Impres- sionism was in the ascendant ...
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... vision is said to be reduced in some river dolphins . The facial part of the skull is elongated into rostrum , or beak ( Figure 3 ) . The maxillary bones are spread laterally at their posterior ends and either override the frontal bones ...
... vision is said to be reduced in some river dolphins . The facial part of the skull is elongated into rostrum , or beak ( Figure 3 ) . The maxillary bones are spread laterally at their posterior ends and either override the frontal bones ...
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