Weir, Irene, 1863-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn & Company · leaf 256
r. Schrader maintains thatthey decorated the pediments of an early temple1of Athena which was destroyed at the time of thePersian wars.2 Another writer says of the coloring3 of thesegroups: It was highly conventional, dark blue, forexample, being constantly used, not only for the hair 1 Pre-Persian… … 233 234 THE GREEK PAINTERS ART and beards of men, but also for horses and for thebody of the bull, while the rest of the distributionof the color was decorative rather than realistic incharacter. The background was sometimes colored, some-times left plain, so that the colored figures stood…
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