The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. 9.—Vase painting in the Louvre, illustrating the style of Polygnotus, overcome. The drawing on the so-called Ficoronian Cista, andon the best of the Greek mirror-backs, may be instanced. Theancients recognized that in the latter part of the 5th painting made a great technical advance, so that all thathad gone before seemed archaic, while for the first time thegates of art were opened and the perfect masters entered advance is in the direction of the representation not of fo
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. 9.—Vase painting in the Louvre, illustrating the style of Polygnotus, overcome. The drawing on the so-called Ficoronian Cista, andon the best of the Greek mirror-backs, may be instanced. Theancients recognized that in the latter part of the 5th painting made a great technical advance, so that all thathad gone before seemed archaic, while for the first time thegates of art were opened and the perfect masters entered advance is in the direction of the representation not of formonly but of space, and seems from literary notices to have implieda considerable acquaintance with perspective science. Thelocus classicus, one of great importance, is in Vitruvius. In thepreface to his seventh book he writes of Agatharcus, a painterwho flourished at Athens in the middle and third quarter of the5th century, that he executed a scene-painting for Aeschylus,and wrote a treatise upon it which inspired the philosophersDemocritus and Anaxagoras to take up the subject, and to sh
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