Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 38
e before, sothat they ajipeared to be marching, ^iiich gave a sense ofmotion that was one of the finest ciualities of their art, butthere \\as no sense of perspecti\-e or of light and shade. PERSIA 9 Probabl,y the highest artistic development was in Chaldeaand Assjiia. By tlie time Persia liad… … Fig. 4.—Assyrian Tiles (Reconstruction). Louvre. decorated tiles from Susa, Persia (Fig. 4), which show menmarching. This is a reconstruction from a miscellaneous findof painted tiles Ijut the effect is like that of the original decora-tions. With all the stiffness of the conventional design in…
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