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 58
ly and with great ostentation attempt in theirreliefs to throw up the principal action against a complete natural background ;a task properly to be undertaken by painting alone, and one which Greekpainting itself only undertook after a period of probation in which it hadacquired the necessary… … Fig. 7. plan and elevation does not occur regularly as in Egypt ; but similar arbitrarydevices are not wanting: we do find occasionally trees, hills, and towers,drawn with their tops downmost, and constantly trees drawn at divergentangles from the hills on which they stand. Moreover all these…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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