A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 577
Egyptian and Assyrian art are made absolutelymural by their lack of perspective, linear oratmospheric. The same may be said of Etrus-can wall painting. In the decorations uiionthe walls of Pompeian houses there is nuichmore attempt at perspective illusion, but evenhere no real perspective ileptii,… … Mural Painting: Upper Church of S. Francis at Assist, Italy. men, fortified by centuries of tnulitioii, deinainleila flat mural treatment, even wlien backfimundand middle ground objects had some imjjortaiicein the decoration. This sentiment of decorativeflatness subsisted for many centuries. In…
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