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Identifier: handbookofarchae00west (find matches)
Title: Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884
Subjects: Art, Ancient Archaeology
Publisher: London, Bell and Daldy
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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DANCING FIGURE, POMPEII. give us any idea of the colouring and painting of the ancients,which, though they exhibit many beauties, particularly in compo-sition, are evidently the works of inferior artists in a period ofdecline. At Pompeii there is scarcely a house the walls of whichare not decorated with fresco paintings. The smallest apartmentswere lined with stucco, painted in the most brilliant and endlessvariety of colours, in compartments, simply tinted with a light 224 HANDBOOK OF ARCHEOLOGY. ground, surrounded by an ornamental margin, and sometimesembellished with a single figure or subject in the centre, or atequal distances. These paintings are very frequently historical ormythological, but embrace every variety of subject, some of themost exquisite beauty. Landscape painting was never a favourite
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with the ancients, and if ever introduced in a painting, was subor-dinate. The end and aim of painting among the ancients was torepresent and illustrate the myths of the gods, the deeds of heroes,and important historical events, hence giving all prominence to thedelineation of the human form. Landscape, on the other hand,illustrated nothing, represented no important event deserving of PAINTING. 225 record, and was thus totally without significance in a Grecian tem-ple or pinacotheca. In an age of decline, as at Pompeii, it wasemployed for mere decorative purposes.. Many architectural sub-jects are continually found, in which it is easy to trace the true

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  • booksubject:Art__Ancient
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  • bookpublisher:London__Bell_and_Daldy
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