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 39
rc-not really subordinate to architecture, but independent, merely finding in thewall-surfaces provided by architecture an opportunity for their ow n free devices.Or again, if we consider that the primary purpose of all these great paintingsseems to be to commemorate actual events for posterity ;… … ANCIENT EGYPT AND THE EAST. held ; so that, if these great decorations are in part the servants of architecture,they are at least as much the servants of history,—if we consider this, we shallunderstand why another distinguished writer, Semper, speaks of the storiedwalls of the Egyptian palaces as…
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