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The pictures of the old masters deal generally with religious subjects, but at the approach of the Renaissance the revived interest in classic art and culture led many of the artists to paint scenes from the mythology of the Greeks. It is with these pic tures, rather more than with ancient sculpture, that this volume will Concern itself. Certain gods and heroes naturally became favourites with the painters, while others were hardly ever represented. There fore, one cannot study mythology systematically from the pictures of the Renaissance, but one can, by studying the pictures of the Renaissance, discover what features in the old legends had predominated and survived with perennial interest for the later students of classic myth.
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The pictures of the old masters deal generally with religious subjects, but at the approach of the Renaissance the revived interest in classic art and culture led many of the artists to paint scenes from the mythology of the Greeks. It is with these pic tures, rather more than with ancient sculpture, that this volume will Concern itself. Certain gods and heroes naturally became favourites with the painters, while others were hardly ever represented. There fore, one cannot study mythology systematically from the pictures of the Renaissance, but one can, by studying the pictures of the Renaissance, discover what features in the old legends had predominated and survived with perennial interest for the later students of classic myth.
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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.
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- Publication date2018
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- ISBN 13 9781333483869
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages371
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