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 39
of those above him ; andyet the height of all three together only just equals the stature of their sire. Naturally this absence of perspective, which throws so strangely out thegrouping of even a few figures close to one another, tells with twofold effectwhere the background is regularly filled in,… … 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, andin the…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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