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 162
capes, their number is so great that Winckel-mann could in his time declare that most of the Herculaneum paintings repre-sented landscapes, harbours, summer-houses, woods, fisheries, and views ; andthough we may not be able now to say that landscapes compose the majority,still they compose a very… … fir. 3& wall-paintings that exist; and it is the case with regard to mosaic pictures as well.Instead of assuming, then, as used to be done, that the ancients did not troublethemselves about landscape, we are in a position to prove that, at least in theearly days of the Empire, this was a…
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