The first
lands to meet the spoiler, their very ruins have perished. All that
there is of painting comes to us in broken potteries and color traces
on statuary. The remains of sculpture and architecture are of course
better preserved. None of this intermediate art holds much rank by
virtue of its inherent worth. It is its influence upon the West--the
ideas, subjects, and methods it imparted to the Greeks--that gives it
importance in art history.
ART REMAINS: In painting chiefly the vases in the
Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Louvre, British and
Berlin Museums. These give a poor and incomplete idea of the
painting in Asia Minor, Phoenicia and her colonies. The
terra-cottas, figurines in bronze, and sculptures can be
studied to more advantage. The best collection of Cypriote
antiquities is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. A new
collection of Judaic art has been recently opened in the
Louvre.
CHAPTER III.
GREEK PAINTING.
BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Baumeister, _Denkmaeler des klassischen
Altertums_--article "_Malerei_;" Birch, _History of Ancient
Pottery_; Brunn, _Geschichte der griechischen Kuenstler_;
Collignon, _Mythologie figuree de la Grece_; Collignon,
_Manuel d'Archaeologie Grecque_; Cros et Henry,
_L'Encaustique et les autres procedes de Peinture chez les
Anciens_; Girard, _La Peinture Antique_; Murray, _Handbook
of Greek Archaeology_; Overbeck, _Antiken Schriftquellen zur
geschichte der bildenen Kunste bie den Griechen_; Perrot and
Chipiez, _History of Art in Greece_; Woerman, _Die
Landschaft in der Kunst der antiken Volker_; _see also books
on Etruscan and Roman painting_.
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