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 524
-cies of the taste for pure or-namentation ; their forms wereconventionalised no less than the forms of plants, and frankly transformedinto many constituent elements of a symmetrical surface pattern. And thishappened although the Arabs were by no means naturally destitute of theinstinct for… … 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 of surface…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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