Ancient Painting
- Art of Ancient Egypt
- Knossos
- Mycenaean Greece
- Pottery of ancient Greece
- Roman art
- Pompeian Styles
- Fayum mummy portraits
- Early Christian art and architecture
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“We Irish, born into that ancient sect
But thrown upon this filthy modern tide
And by its formless spawning fury wrecked,
Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace
The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.”
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“The peculiarity of sculpture is that it creates a three-dimensional object in space. Painting may strive to give on a two-dimensional plane, the illusion of space, but it is space itself as a perceived quantity that becomes the peculiar concern of the sculptor. We may say that for the painter space is a luxury; for the sculptor it is a necessity.”
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