Art and CivilizationFrancis Sydney Marvin, Alan Clutton-Brock |
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aesthetic Ajanta ancient animals appreciation architects architecture artists Asia Athens Baroque beauty Bernini British Museum bronze Bronze Age Buddhism buildings Byzantine Byzantine art Caravaggio cave centre century B.C. character China Chinese Christian art church cities civilization classical classical elements colour complex connexion decoration drawing early East Egypt eighteenth century elegant emotion Europe European evolution example expression eyes fact feeling figures formal qualities frescoes furniture genius Gothic Revival Greece Greek art Hellenic Hellenistic human idea imitation Indian influence Italy kind landscape later living Lysippus Magdalenian Medieval art ment Michelangelo modern movement natural Neolithic nineteenth century North northern objects original ornament painters Palaeolithic perhaps period Persian painting Phidias produced Rembrandt Renaissance Roman Romanesque Rome sculpture seems seen Seicento sense sensibility skill spirit stone style symbol taste things thought tion tradition Upper Palaeolithic vision visual Western whole