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 553
Decoration. 525 formed by straight lines intersecting one another in every direc- tion, such as lozenges, squares, the tooth-and-dart ornament, etc. ; shapes which, in the following stage, will hold so large a place … Fig. 229. — Stela. Height o m., 76. in the linear decoration of Hellas. This reticence on our part is easily grasped. Patterns made up of straight lines are almost unknown to the sculpture, ivories, and jewellery of the really archaic period ; the only instances known to us appear on half-a- dozen…
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