An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 20
ecoration ; but it was also intended tobe useful, and was so employed as to tell the history of thecountry ;—its wars, with their conquests and triumphs, andthe lives of the kings, and many other stories, are just asdistinctly told by pictures as by the hieroglyphics or Egyp-tian writings. We can… … 6 PAINTINCr. and then colored, and a third on designs in intaglio, or hol-lowed out from the flat surface and the colors applied tothe figures thus cut out. They had no knowledge of whatwe call perspective, that is, the art of representing a varietyof objects on one flat surface, and making them…
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