Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 140
iples. In the reliefs from Gandhara and Amarayati (second-fourthcenturies a.d.), which are well represented in the British Museum, theinfluence of the coloristic principle is apparent. Here too there is anevident effort to bring all the figures into one plane, whatever may betheir spatial relation… … Fig. 68. Marble capital of the sixth century in the Cairo Museum. {Catalogue general: Koptische Kunst, No. 7352.) of creating spatial illusion through perspective and a gradually diminishingrelief. Instead of perspective they employ the primitive device of super-position ; and though they somewhat…
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