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History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)

Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 114

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with avery rich system of ornamentation. The figure subjects are often againarranged in rows as in the oldest ware, and rich wreaths of vegetable ornamentcover the neck and handles. There are many links of resemblance betweenthe style proper to this new international Hellenism and the old… … Fig. 17. The subjects represented on these rich vases are again connected with theservice of the dead ; but the memorial structure, which forms the central pointof the picture, is here seldom a simple stele, but more commonly a rich temple-like building or heroon, around which the friends of the…

Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval

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