History of ancient pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman (1905)
Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944, Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · New York, Scribner · leaf 355
s, 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… … 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…
Pottery, Ancient · Mythology, Greek
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