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 439
383 Pottery. changeableness of needs, almost everywhere alike, which he has to satisfy, is limited to a very small number of combinations. Geometric design alone, with its play of lines, admits of many arrangements, and when, in addition to these, forms derived from the living world are introduced… … Fig. 470. — Three-handled amphora. Height, 41 c. particular bent of the artist’s mind ; this will either incline him to a literal rendering of his model, or a happy selection of the fairest and most impressive features, and thus lead to the creation of ideal forms. Shapes, then, are much more…
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