The Greek Painters Art PDF Download

Excerpt from The Greek Painters' Art Every student of art, history, and literature knows something about Greek architecture and Greek sculpture. Such knowledge is as essential to an intelligent understanding of modern art, modern history, and modern literature as are foundation stones to a building. Architecture and sculpture are, however, but two of the three divisions of the visual arts. Without painting the triple unit is not complete. And it is a lamentable fact that of Greek painting so little remains that to the average student there is not and never was in Greece a field of painting comparable to the sister arts. Modern discoveries on Greek soil, however, are continually throwing new light upon the painters art. They reveal glimpses of that world of color to which ancient Greek writers refer in terms of high praise. Traces of color have been found on the inside walls of the palaces at Tiryns, Mykenae, Phylakopi, and Knossos, on metopes, triglyphs, pediments, and other architectural members of various temples. These remains prove that color was called to the aid of architecture from Homeric times down to the perfect period of its development that culminated in the Parthenon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."