History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 113
in-heroic myths properly SO-Called, this style treats chielly those handled in latertragedy, especially by Kuripides ; a preference which is in direct contrast to 84 HISTORY OF PAINTING. that of the old black-figured style, which drew its subjects chiefly from epicpoetry. Thus Iphigeneia, Paris,… … Fig. 18. is shown for the personified powers of nature. Pompous scenes of sunrise setbefore us anthropomorphic representations of natural phenomena, which areunique of their kind. So also the mythic company of the divinities both ofsea and land receive rich and various treatment. Among themes of…
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