History of art in primitive Greece; Mycenian art from the French of Georges Perrot ... and Charles Chipiez. Illustrated with five hundred and forty-four engravings in the text, and twenty coloured plates (1894)
Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Gonino, I · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited · leaf 229
he ^Egean, we must fain surrender to the logic of facts, and the evidence furnished by recent finds from these same graves, where by the side of the figures in question were found large balls of colouring matter, intense blue and deep red,1 which doubtless were remains of pigments used in painting… … Fig. 333. — Fragments of terra-cotta idols. from one individual to another. These, it may be, were the sole adornment of the tribal chiefs in the opening of the archaic period. Most of the figures are but from fifteen to twenty centimetres in height ; but the rich collection preserved in the…
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