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... mentioned by Herodotus . " Amasis , upwards of six centuries B.C. , sent a golden image of Minerva and his own painted portrait to the Greeks established at Cyrene - κàι εικόνα εαυτοῦ γραφῇ ἐικασμενην . He sent two wooden images of ...
... mentioned by Herodotus . " Amasis , upwards of six centuries B.C. , sent a golden image of Minerva and his own painted portrait to the Greeks established at Cyrene - κàι εικόνα εαυτοῦ γραφῇ ἐικασμενην . He sent two wooden images of ...
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... mentioned , the ground itself was sufficient . These colours are sometimes modified with chalk , but they are always applied singly and unmixed . Different colours are reserved for different objects : men and women are painted red , 16 ...
... mentioned , the ground itself was sufficient . These colours are sometimes modified with chalk , but they are always applied singly and unmixed . Different colours are reserved for different objects : men and women are painted red , 16 ...
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... mentioned ; his wife , Ladice , was a native Greek of Cyrene . The arts were particularly active in Egypt in the time of this king ; he built the temple of Isis at Memphis . Both the plastic and the graphic art continued , doubtless ...
... mentioned ; his wife , Ladice , was a native Greek of Cyrene . The arts were particularly active in Egypt in the time of this king ; he built the temple of Isis at Memphis . Both the plastic and the graphic art continued , doubtless ...
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... mention painting as an imitative art , nor is there in Greek theogony , or hero - worship , any god or hero , or an indi- vidual of any kind , who represents the class of painters , similar to Vulcan and Dædalus , representing workers ...
... mention painting as an imitative art , nor is there in Greek theogony , or hero - worship , any god or hero , or an indi- vidual of any kind , who represents the class of painters , similar to Vulcan and Dædalus , representing workers ...
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... mentioned ; it was in his time ap- parently a celebrated depository for works of art , and this was nearly six hundred years before the visit of Strabo , when it was still a great gallery of arts ; the history of modern art cannot yet ...
... mentioned ; it was in his time ap- parently a celebrated depository for works of art , and this was nearly six hundred years before the visit of Strabo , when it was still a great gallery of arts ; the history of modern art cannot yet ...
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