Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 334
s andflowers appear dark;red white is used onlyin few cases — for in-stance, for the hair of anold man. The composi-tion shows greater con-centration and symme-try in the grouping,according to the condi-tions of the space atdisposal. The figures show a solemn dignity, with signs, however, of an… … ,22 DOMESTIC UTENSILS. Kramer calls the beautiful style, in which grace and beauty ofmotion and drapery, verging on the soft, have taken the place ofsevere di-nitv. In high art this transition might be compared tothat from Peruginos school to that of Raphael, or, if we may be-lieve the ancient…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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