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 37
those above him j andyet the height of all three together only just equals the stature of their site. Naturally this absence of perspective, which throws so strangely out thegrouping of even a few figures close to one another, tells w ith twofold effectwhere the background is regularly filled in.… … Fig. i. of Rameses at Thebes furnishvery interesting examples. Inone of the first we have a river-bed drawn in ground-plan, andwithin the river-bed an islandor tongue of land defendedby a wall and ditch ; thefortifications of the island areindicated by six battlementedtowers drawn in elevation,…
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