Roman art : some of its principles and their application to early Christian painting (1900)
Wickhoff, Franz, 1853-1909, Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943 · London : W. Heinemann ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 231
THE MEDEA OF TIMOMACHUS 139 nothing in vase-painting that resembles the Laocoon ; before that the unequal struggle had been abandoned. If we decline to remain quietly anchored to the stock notion of Hellenism and have realised that in art period follows period in depen- dence on physiological laws… … form. Fig. 56. — Medea meditating the murder of her children (Photograph Alinari) Therefore in looking through the Pompeian pictures chronologically we must — if we are right in supposing that they represent contemporary painting and reproduce its favourite subjects, expect to see the wild rush of…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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