Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 36
portraiture that was so markeda characteristic of the Greek artists from the very beginningof their art history. The Egyptian was at best simph- a skilledmechanic, using figures and colors to decorate and tell a storyin the simplest manner. When the Greeks came into Egyptthey gave the native… … Fin, 3.—Portrait llum-m>. From Tombs ofFayoum, Egj]jt. ANCIENT PAINTING CHALDEA ASSYRIA PERSIA No section of eountry to-day is attracting more attentionthrough the worlv of the excavator than the valleys along theTigris and Euphrates rivers and around the Persian Gulf.That the Chaldean, Assyrian…
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