An outline history of painting for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous full-page illustrations (1902)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 18
ration ; but it was also intended tobe useful, and was so employed as to tell the history of thecountry ;—its wars, with their conquests and triumphs, andthe lives of the kings, and many other stories, are just asdistinctly told by pictures as by the hieroglyphics or Egyp-tian writings. We can… … i:0/j|[lf!^i 6 PAINTING. and then colored, and a third on designs in intaglio, or hol-lowed out from the flat surface and the colors applied tothe figures thus cut out. They had no knowledge of whatwe call perspective, that is, the art of representing a varietyof objects on one flat surface, and…
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![An illustration from Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'Égypte antique / publié sous les auspices de S.A. Abbas II Helmi par la direction générale du Service des antiquités [de l'Égypte] ; par J. de Morgan, U. Bouriant, G. Legrain, G. Jéquier, A. Barsanti (1894)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-cataloguedesmonu21egyp-387-744.webp)
