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 520
taste for pine or-namentation ; their forms wereconventionalised no le^s than the forms of plants, ami frankly transformedinto many constituent elements of a symmetrical surface pattern. And thishappened although the Arabs were by no means naturally destitute of theinstinct for observing nature,… … Fig, 13$. 494 HISTORY OF PAINTING. of camels fallen on by lions, a vehement dramatic life and a surprising expres-siveness in the rendering both of helpless collapse and ferocious attack ; andthis notwithstanding that the animals are represented quite without shading,in the likeness of a mere play…
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