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The principles of Greek art (1914)

Gardner, Percy, 1846-1937 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 207

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vestiges of their colours, whereas the frescoes have bodily vanished. Of these I have spoken in chapter VIII. Perhaps such reliefs as the grave-monument of Aristion and the archaic female figures in the Acropolis Museum at Athens (as Fig. 35) are our best evidence. But as regards drawing, we are… … field, Megacles, which has been filled in over the erased name, Glaucytes, occurs on vases of about 500 b.c. In the case of this tablet four colours are used. The terra-cotta ground was 1 Ephemeris, 1887, PL VI., p. 115.

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