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 537
uses must have greatly resembled the gay villas on the Riviera di Genoa, whose yellow, red, and blue veil is in strong contrast with the sombre green of the pine and cypress and olive. The main effort of the painter was centred on those parts of the edifice where his work would not be exposed to… … apartments. All that remains of these frescoes — and that is far more than we had any right to expect — are plastered scraps which fell from the walls thousands of years ago.^ Though evanescent, the colours are fairly preserved, on such bits at all events as had their face turned to the ground, for…
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