The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture and civilization (1915)
Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933, Hopper, R. J. (Robert John), 1910- · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott · leaf 113
ort of scrawl, scraping meaning-less emblems even between the legs of his horses, wearies theeye of the spectator. His designs have no correspondencewhatever with the form of his material, any more than themodern house-decorators friezes and dados properly belongto the four flat surfaces of his… … THE HEROIC AGEdoes violence to all these canons of good taste. There mustbe an explanation. It is easy to see that the ornamentation of a Dipylon vaseis borrowed from an alien technique. Pottery never requiredthe artist to divide his field up into parallel bands withborders and fringes. It is…
Art, Greek
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