The life of the Greeks and Romans (1875) (14766307434)

Identifier: lifeofgreeksroma00guhl (find matches)
Title: The life of the Greeks and Romans
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Guhl, E. (Ernst), 1819-1862 Koner, W. (Wilhelm), 1817-1887, joint author Hueffer, Francis, 1843-1889, tr
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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cated by black lines, arestill carefully worked out. For smaller folds and muscles, adarker shade of the red colour is used; wreaths and flowersappear dark; red white is used only in few cases—for instance,for the hair of an old man. The composition shows greaterconcentration and symmetry in the grouping, according to theconditions of the space at disposal. The figures show a solemndignity, with signs, however, of an attempted freer treatment. DEVELOPMENT OF VASE-PAINTING. M5 Kramer justly calls this period that of the severe style, andcompares it with the well-known ^Eginetic style in sculpture.The further development of the severe style is what Kramercalls the beautiful style, in which grace and beauty of motionand drapery, verging on the soft, have taken the place of severedignity. In high art this transition might be compared to thatfrom Peruginos school to that of Raphael, or, if we may believethe ancient writers, from the school of Polygnotos to that ofZeuxis and Parrhasios. b
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a d e c Fig. 197. The form of the vessels themselves next calls for our attention.The vases, two-handled amphorai and krateres, found most fre-quently during this period are slender and graceful. Togetherwith them we meet with beautifully modelled drinking-horns(Fig. 201), and heads (Fig. 197, d) or whole figures, used toput vessels upon. The variety of forms, and the largeness ofsome vessels, overloaded as they were with figures, soon ledto want of care in the composition. The moderation character-istic of the beautiful style was soon relinquished for exagger- L 146 DEVELOPMENT OF VASE-PAINTING. ated ornamentation, combined with a preference for representingsumptuous dresses and the immoderate use of white, yellow, andother colours. This led gradually to the decadence of pottery.Lucania and Apulia are the places where sumptuous vessels of thedegenerating style are most frequently found (see Fig. 197, a, b, c).The handles of the splendid amphora (Fig. 197, a) are attached tothe brim,