A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design (1905)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 203
THE BACKGROUND IN LOW RELIEFS below, the rocky hill and a tree upon it rises from that flat background and affords in its turn a back- ground for the single erect figure on the extreme … Fig. 185. East doorway of Florence Baptistery, middle panel of left-hand door : by Lorenzo Ghiberti, about 1425 right. In that very elaborate panel of the same doorway in which is shown the falling of the walls of Jericho, Fig. 185 bis, the background is still more broken up, for it can be…
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