Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 151
any years later, to his own country as atoken from his hand. Nikias doubtless worked inencaustic. Several wall paintings at Pompeii andone at Rome are possibly replicas of his famousIo.1 Pliny says that he painted women with minutecare. He took special pains in the arrangementof his figures against… … IO GUARDED BY ARGOS128 A BRIEF HISTORY OF GREEK PAINTING 129 Apelles Together with these masters in the age of Alex-ander and his successors there are many others ofrenown in whom are summed up, if we read theseancient records aright, the greatness of the past,with, in addition, a skillful mastery…
Painting, Greek · Painting, Greco-Roman
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