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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 286

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small superficial detailsof plumage and textures are carefully attended to.There is often less life though actually morelikeness. The general tendency in the develop-ment of the art of a people seems to have beenfrom the formal, monumental, and symbolic type 264 THK (IRAPHIC INKLUENC:Eof… … A FOWLER. WALL PAINTING. NINETEENTH DYNASTY(15RITISH museum). monumental and stereotyped art of ancient Egypt,which notably in the portrait sculpture even ofthe ancient empire is remarkable for extraordinaryrealism ; and in the wall paintings of the laterperiod of the Theban empire (as in the tomb…

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