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An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 47

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Fig. io.—Demeter Enthroned. Fro7n a Pompeian wall-painting. PAINTING. times divided ; the principal subjects were surrounded byornamental borders, and the spaces between filled in withall sorts of little compartments. The small spaces in thispicture are quite regular in form ; but frequently they… … Fig. II.—PoMPEiAX Walt.-painting. whole work. The colors used upon these different panels,as they may be called, were usually red, yellow, black, andwhite—more rarely blue and green. Sometimes the entiredecoration consisted of these small, variously colored spaces,divided by some graceful little…

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