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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. Relation of painting to sculpture in Greece?Relation of existing remains to the recorded masterpieces of the art?History of Painting according to literary records to be separated from the same history according to existing remains?History of Roman not to be separated from history of Greek painting? Distance between achievement of Greeks and Orientals greater in painting than in sculpture. It is an acknowledged fact that on the soil of Greece art first shook off all her fetters, and grew strong in deliberate freedom till she became a power able alike to delight the mind and. senses of man, and to satisfy and elevate his moral being. In this high estimate of the arts of Greece, it is usual to give the first place to sculpture; nay, it has been said and repeated to satiety, that the genius of the race was above all things a plastic genius, and that the plastic feeling, or feeling which finds its natural expression in sculpture, pervades all the other arts of the Greeks as well, and asserts itself in their poetry and architecture not less than in their sculpture itself. And it is true that towards sculpture everything seemed to direct the powers of the Greek?the landscape which surrounded him, his own physical beauty, the customs of his life, the forms and temper of his religion. It is true, again, that he brought sculpture to perfection much earlier than he did painting. But it would be a great mistake to infer from the splendid genius of the sculptors of ancient Greece that her painters were more doubtfully gifted. Classical literature would of itself make such an opinion improbable; for ancient writers have left praises not less enthusiastic of painters than of sculptors. Polygnotos, Zeuxis, Parrhasios, Timanthes, Protogenes, and Apelles are just...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217222464
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217222463
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 367 gr


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