The Connoisseur: Essays On the Romantic And Picturesque Associations of Art ...
The Connoisseur: Essays On the Romantic And Picturesque Associations of Art ...
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The Assyrians had contented them- selves with the stones of their native rivers and mountains, the lapis lazuli and the amethyst, but the Greeks, through the Phoenicians, who dealt in the riches of Arabia, had a wider choice. In the culminating age of Alexander they employed perhaps every precious stone except the diamond.
Whence the Etruscans came has been and always will be a matter of conjecture. "They do not," says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, " re- semble any people in language or manners."... Their finest period corresponds in date, 500 years before the birth of Christ, to the archaic period of the Greeks, who very likely learned the art from them. Greek gem - engraving attained perfection first in Sicily and Magna Grecia, where were colonies neighbouring on 206 Digitized by Google The Story of the Gem.
the Etruscans, far richer than their mother- country of Greece proper. The Greeks full soon improved on the stunted Etruscan type.
Their glorious victories over the Persian in- vaders heralded the golden age of Pheidias.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Assyrians had contented them- selves with the stones of their native rivers and mountains, the lapis lazuli and the amethyst, but the Greeks, through the Phoenicians, who dealt in the riches of Arabia, had a wider choice. In the culminating age of Alexander they employed perhaps every precious stone except the diamond.
Whence the Etruscans came has been and always will be a matter of conjecture. "They do not," says Dionysius of Halicarnassus, " re- semble any people in language or manners."... Their finest period corresponds in date, 500 years before the birth of Christ, to the archaic period of the Greeks, who very likely learned the art from them. Greek gem - engraving attained perfection first in Sicily and Magna Grecia, where were colonies neighbouring on 206 Digitized by Google The Story of the Gem.
the Etruscans, far richer than their mother- country of Greece proper. The Greeks full soon improved on the stunted Etruscan type.
Their glorious victories over the Persian in- vaders heralded the golden age of Pheidias.
What to read after The Connoisseur: Essays On the Romantic And Picturesque Associations of Art ...?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Frederick S. Robinson to read onlineMoreLess
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