Studies in ancient furniture; couches and beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans (1905)
Williams, Caroline Ransom · Chicago : The University of Chicago Press · leaf 30
of very plain styles. But maythere not be another explanation? The painters of the early red-figured vaseswere occupied with problems of drawing and technic, and cared less than theirstory-telling predecessors for mere elaborate details, requiring patience, but nonew skill. Further, they were… … Fic. S.—Banqucling-sctne. Detail from a wall-painting in an Etruscan tomb.—Corneto-Tarquinia and fancy could suggest would have been none too good. It seems to me, there-fore, probable that in the great variety of beds represented on red-figured vaseswe have that which is lacking for the…
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