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 119
il, to a time not earlier than that of Alexander the Great. Atany rate, the artist shows the utmost mastery of all technical means, as wellas of drawing and foreshortening, and in spite of the predominance he givesto beauty has not neglected individual truth to nature. Many writers declarethat this… … Fig. 21. Engraved mirrors, which we shall next examine, are round disks provided witha handle. The front of the disk was formed by the flat polished surface used as amirror. The back was ornamented with incised drawings executed in a mannercorresponding to that of the caskets from Prseneste. Such…
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