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 256
The “Olympus” (i. 21) and the “ Narcissus” (i. 23), boys gazing at their reflexions in the water would, were the pictures preserved to us, probably afford the best proof of the development of illusionist painting, because we already find similar subjects, in Pompei, and the progress in treatment… … Fig. 65. — Head from the Fayoum Fig. 66. — Head from the Fayounr (Catal. Graf, No. 69) (Catal. Graf, No. 78) which the fragments are preserved in the Palazzo Rospigliosi.* The delicate strokes of the brush in these decorative monochromes recall Watteau, and not the feathery treatment alone, but the…
Art, Roman · Christian art and symbolism
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