Outline History of the Fine Arts: Embracing a View of the Rise, Progress, and Influence of the Arts Among Different Nations, Ancient and Modern, with Notices of the Character and Works of Many Celebrated ArtistsHarper and Bros., 1868 - 330 pages |
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... Greece . To do this , the popular taste must be favourable , and to create and im- prove the taste for this object , it is necessary by facts to produce a conviction that to the Fine Arts all civilized nations are greatly indebted for ...
... Greece . To do this , the popular taste must be favourable , and to create and im- prove the taste for this object , it is necessary by facts to produce a conviction that to the Fine Arts all civilized nations are greatly indebted for ...
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... Greece - Its early Cities - Building Materials used - The five Epochs of Grecian Architecture- The three Orders , Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian - Their Origin and Proportions - Beautiful Roman Specimen - Temples of Greece , and her ...
... Greece - Its early Cities - Building Materials used - The five Epochs of Grecian Architecture- The three Orders , Doric , Ionic , and Corinthian - Their Origin and Proportions - Beautiful Roman Specimen - Temples of Greece , and her ...
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... Greece · 115 CHAPTER II . The grand Style in Greece - Phidias and his Works - Alcamenes and Agarocrites - Other Artists - Tomb of Mausolus - Niobe- Graceful or Beautiful Style - Praxiteles - Two Venuses- Choice of Phryne - Lysippus and ...
... Greece · 115 CHAPTER II . The grand Style in Greece - Phidias and his Works - Alcamenes and Agarocrites - Other Artists - Tomb of Mausolus - Niobe- Graceful or Beautiful Style - Praxiteles - Two Venuses- Choice of Phryne - Lysippus and ...
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... Greece - Battle of the Magnetes - Pancenus , Polygnotus , Apollodorus , Zeuxis , and Parrhasius , and their works - A Trial of Skill - Cruelty of Parrhasius - Guido's Crucifixion- Timanthes - Immolation of Iphigenia - Danby's Opening of ...
... Greece - Battle of the Magnetes - Pancenus , Polygnotus , Apollodorus , Zeuxis , and Parrhasius , and their works - A Trial of Skill - Cruelty of Parrhasius - Guido's Crucifixion- Timanthes - Immolation of Iphigenia - Danby's Opening of ...
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... Greece , where a happy ignorance peopled the groves and the fountains with nymphs and naiads , and their mountains and seas with gods and goddesses- when religion by its holy influence , refined the feelings , sentiments , and ...
... Greece , where a happy ignorance peopled the groves and the fountains with nymphs and naiads , and their mountains and seas with gods and goddesses- when religion by its holy influence , refined the feelings , sentiments , and ...
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