History of ancient pottery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885. History of ancient pottery · London, J. Murray · leaf 353
, a principle which isuniversal in all early development of Greek art, and to which wehave already referred (p. 245 : see also p. 315). Briefly it is this :first, the predominance of pure ornament and the perfecting ofthe same ; secondly, the employment of animal forms and therelegation of ornament… … FIG. 84. GEOMETRICAL VASE WITH PANELS (bRIT. MUS.). Hence we find that figures of animals when first introducedon Geometrical vases are of a conventional and ill-drawncharacter, but show a gradual progress and development.Human forms again, which now appear for the first time, areonly seen in a…
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