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1954

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The Evolution Of Portraiture In The Italian Renaissance, Edward Martin Gnall Apr 1954

The Evolution Of Portraiture In The Italian Renaissance, Edward Martin Gnall

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The method of procedure employed in this study was to gather scattered material relating to the subject from art histories, artist, biographies, personal notes recorded while pursuing standard university courses on the history of art, art periodicals, and art bulletins, and attempt to condense the acquired material into a lucid organization of facts, places, personalities, and works. Photographic reproductions in black and white were made of portrait works by various major artists in the Italian Renaissance and compared sequentially to establish a possible relationship of developing styles. Those which seemed to epitomize the most significant advances were chosen for the …


A Survey Of Southwestern Indian Stone, Shell, And Bone Sculpture, Diane Lee Aller Jan 1954

A Survey Of Southwestern Indian Stone, Shell, And Bone Sculpture, Diane Lee Aller

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The interest of the modern artist and craftsman in primitive art has increased yearly since the official discovery of this variety of art in the early years of the twentieth century. To meet the demand for information that this interest has aroused, large numbers of books and articles, many illustrating handsome examples of primitive work, have been compiled. These works, though often valuable and exciting, usually fail to give anything approaching a complete examination of one subject. An art student of a particular subject must turn to the works of the anthropologist, rather than to the works of the art …