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 47
nd of colossal picture-writing or monumental annals. If, therefore, the eye i6 HISTORY OF PAINTING. lingers with interest upon the strange and manifold aspects of life thus recorded,it is the subject rather than the fashion of the record which attracts us. Thereader will have realised by this time… … The scenes painted on Egyptian walls have been appropriately classed underthree heads—religious, historical, and domestic. Of these, the religious classis that which lies farthest from our sympathies. In these brute-headeddivinities, blue or green, we can take no pleasure for themselves, while…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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