| Description |
193 pages : mounted color illustrations, map ; 29 cm |
| Series |
The Great centuries of painting |
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Great centuries of painting.
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| Contents |
Colour in Greek painting -- Loss of monumental painting -- Vase-painting and its relation to painting in other media -- Painted pottery -- Wall-painting -- Cretan sarcophagus with painted scenes -- Revival of figure-work on painted pottery -- The 'geometric' style -- Painted metopes -- 'Black-figure' technique and separation of vase-painters' style form that of other painters -- Rivalry of Corinthian and Athenian potteries ending in supremacy of Athens -- Remains of panel-painting -- 'Red-figure' technique: relation to painting in other media and to black-figure -- Beginnings of concern with third dimension -- 'White-ground' technique of vase-painting and rapprochement with painting in other media -- Echoes of spatial innovations in red-figure and white-ground vase-painting -- White-ground masterpieces (cups) -- White-ground funeral 'Lekythoi' of Periclean and later Athens -- Painted tombstones -- Chiaroscuro -- Burlesque and stage influence -- "Gnathia' technique of vase-painting, and echoes of developments in chiaroscuro and perspective -- The "Alexander mosaic' -- History of mosaic technique: mosaics form Pella -- Painted tombstones and tomb-chambers -- Polychrome vase-paintings from Sicily and their relation to Roman wall-paintings -- Perspective, freedom of handling and atmospheric effects |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page 183. -- Includes index and list of plates |
| Subject |
Painting, Greek -- History.
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Painting, Greek.
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| LC no. |
59012317 |
| ISBN |
0302000526 |
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9780302000526 |
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