This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...by Dr. Birch: illustrations of which we give. As in every development of art there is a cycle of rise, progress, culmination, decline and decay, we must find the same in that of painted vases, and thus we meet the stages of their development in the epochs which have been termed the Early, the Archaic, the Severe, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 Excerpt: ...by Dr. Birch: illustrations of which we give. As in every development of art there is a cycle of rise, progress, culmination, decline and decay, we must find the same in that of painted vases, and thus we meet the stages of their development in the epochs which have been termed the Early, the Archaic, the Severe, the Beautiful, the Florid, and the final one of Decadence. This development was of a gradual nature, and the transitional stages were almost imperceptible, though easily seen now when the products of centuries of art are before us. The Earliest or Primitive.--The prevailing features in this period are those which are characteristic of the simplicity of early art. The first attempts at ornamentation were plain bands or zones round the axis of the vase. These bands or friezes were subsequently enriched and diversified by the introduction of the forms of flowers, animals, and insects rudely drawn. A curious resemblance has been remarked in these early vases to those of Peru, which shows how similar in its infancy all attempts at art are in countries widely apart. In the old sepulchres, under the Acropolis at Athens, at Delphi, and in the island of Rhodes, Milo (the ancient Melos), and Santorino (the ancient Thera), a kind of pottery has been discovered, which has every appearance of being the earliest painted ware manufactured by the Greeks. It is composed of a fine light red paste, covered with a thin siliceous glaze, and having ornaments painted on it in red, brown, or dark, black lines, which have also been burnt into the body of the vase. Pottery of this style has been found by Dr. Schliemann, in the lowest strata in his excavations at Ilium. No human figures are depicted on any of these vases, but animal forms are found in the rudest and most pri...
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Good. Bound in decorative cloth. Binding somewhat rubbed at extremities, inner hinges crudely repaired with cellophane tape, some light foxing on endpapers, 1 corner bumped. Former owner's name to half-title.; 458pp, nicely illustrated, including folding plates.; 458 pages.
