A grammar of colouring : applied to decorative painting and the arts (1896)
Field, George, 1777?-1854, Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878, Field, George, 1777?-1854. Rudiments of the painters' art, or, A grammar of colouring · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 208
7 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE GRECIAN STYLE. Hitherto all the ornaments have been symbolic ordescriptive; but when we come to Greece we findforms introduced for their own sake, for their beauty-alone ; and this must be considered as a decided step inadvance. Architecture had made rapid strides,… … Fig. 18. for grouping and execution has never been surpassed.It was placed in an elevated position in the cloister orcovered walk around the building; and as the spec-tator was thus debarred from stepping backward toview it from a distance, the sculpture was executed inlow relief, whilst full…
Color · Pigments · Painting · Decoration and ornament
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