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... earliest Egyptian times ; the schools of painting , of engraving , and of sculpture in other materials ; the goldsmiths ' , metal- workers ' , and even the potters ' crafts ; church lore and liturgiology ; the varieties of furniture of ...
... earliest Egyptian times ; the schools of painting , of engraving , and of sculpture in other materials ; the goldsmiths ' , metal- workers ' , and even the potters ' crafts ; church lore and liturgiology ; the varieties of furniture of ...
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... earliest art was an imitation of nature , an attempt to transmit to others , in some tangible form , an impression , appealing to his imagination , of what the artist saw . From that time onwards no one will deny the interest that even ...
... earliest art was an imitation of nature , an attempt to transmit to others , in some tangible form , an impression , appealing to his imagination , of what the artist saw . From that time onwards no one will deny the interest that even ...
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... earliest efforts made by man in the expression of art , is , of course , undeniable . Amongst these earliest efforts -that is of an art which appears to have already attained an extraordinary degree of development and perfection , for ...
... earliest efforts made by man in the expression of art , is , of course , undeniable . Amongst these earliest efforts -that is of an art which appears to have already attained an extraordinary degree of development and perfection , for ...
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... earliest specimens of art of which we have any knowledge , and that any approach to their actual date cannot be ascertained nearer than within a lapse of time measured by hundreds or even thousands of years , one is struck with ...
... earliest specimens of art of which we have any knowledge , and that any approach to their actual date cannot be ascertained nearer than within a lapse of time measured by hundreds or even thousands of years , one is struck with ...
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... earliest efforts in decorative architecture . It would appear that man had no sooner emerged from his primeval condition as a pure savage than he exercised his imitative faculties in an intelligent manner , and set about constructing ...
... earliest efforts in decorative architecture . It would appear that man had no sooner emerged from his primeval condition as a pure savage than he exercised his imitative faculties in an intelligent manner , and set about constructing ...
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