Books Recommended: See Bibliography of Greek
Painting and also Dennis, Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria; Graul, Die
Portratgemalde aus den Grabstatten des Faiyum; Helbig, Die Wandgemalde
Campaniens; Helbig, Untersuchungen uber die Campanische Wandmalerei;
Mau, Geschichte der Decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeii; Martha,
L'Archéologie Étrusque et Romaine. oil paintings for sale
ETRUSCAN PAINTING: Painting in Etruria has not a great deal of
interest for us just here. It was largely decorative and sepulchral in motive,
and was employed in the painting of tombs, and upon vases and other objects
placed in the tombs. It had a native way of expressing itself, which at first
was neither Greek nor Oriental, and yet a reminder of both. Technically it was
not well done. Before 500 B.C. it was almost childish
in the drawing. After that date the figures were better, though short and squat.
Those on the vases usually show outline drawing filled in with dull browns and
yellows. Finally there was a mingling of Etruscan with Greek elements, and an
imitation of Greek methods. It was at best a hybrid art, but of some importance
from an archæological point of view. original oil paintingsROMAN PAINTING: Roman art is an appendix to the art history of Greece. It originated little in painting, and was content to perpetuate the traditions of Greece in an imitative way. What was worse, it copied the degeneracy of Greece by following the degenerate Hellenistic paintings. In motive and method it was substantially the same work as that of the Greeks under the Diadochi. The subjects, again, were often taken from Greek story, though there were Roman historical scenes,genre pieces, and many portraits. paintings reproductions
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