A Handbook of Greek ArchaeologyAmerican Book Company, 1909 - 559 páginas |
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Página 268 - Latin for the canon of symmetry [ou/i/ierpía] which he was so careful to preserve, bringing innovations which had never been thought of before into the square canon of the older artists, and he often said that the difference between himself and them was that they represented men as they were, and he as they appeared to be. His chief characteristic is extreme delicacy of execution even in the smallest details.
Página 535 - Their date appears to be the latter part of the fifth or the early part of the fourth century BC, and they probably reflect the progress made by Apollodorus, his contemporaries, or his immediate successors.
Página 268 - ... older artists had done, and the bodies slimmer and with less flesh, thus increasing the apparent height of his figures. There is no word in Latin for the canon of symmetry...
Página 26 - The larger American museums have attempted to represent the entire history of art in their collections, rather than a single period or locality. Therefore they furnish some of the most valuable historical data in the country as well as a wide range of artistic products.
Página 512 - The Greek vases of southern Italy have not yet received as much scientific...
Página 293 - Toward the end of the fourth, or in the beginning of the third century BC, terracotta statues formed by hand were made in southern Italy.
Página 519 - ... very few, and it is not until about the seventh century BC that plastic design in connection with the manufacture of vases becomes at all common in Greece. It may be noted that the interesting bucchero ware, the national pottery of Etruria, with its reliefs and plastic forms, begins at this time.3 It is impossible here to do more than call attention to some of the important examples of the plastic decoration of vases as it appears in the course of the development of Greek pottery. Of these none...
Página 201 - The so-called Hera from Samos (Fig. 146), now in the Louvre, is a work of about the middle of the sixth century, and was, according to its inscription, dedicated to Hera by a certain Cheramyes. It exhibits a roundness as remarkable as is the flatness of the Naxian statue from Delos, and has for that reason been supposed to show the influence of wooden statues carved from round logs. It may possibly be an imitation in marble of an ancient wooden figure (xoanon), but as such figures were probably always...
Página 196 - Statues, as well as reliefs, were regularly colored, the extent of the coloring depending upon the kind of stone employed and also upon the taste of the period to which a given work belongs. Pure white statuary did not, however, exist at any period in Greek art.
Página 195 - ... certainly did not settle in any large numbers. At the end of the fifth century AD the western Balkan peoples seem substantially to have been what they were in the fourth century BC, except that culturally they had fallen under the civilizing influence of Rome. THE COMING OF THE SLAVS All this was changed in the latter part of the sixth and the first half of the seventh centuries. To the north, the Slav peoples were expanding in all directions from their homeland around the Pripet marshes. They...