Introductory
Of all the arts painting has the least pretensions to immortality.
"Though nothing now remains of the paintings of the Greek artists
Zeuxis and Apelles," observed the renowned British painter, Sir William
Orpen, " We know not only from contemporary appreciation but by the
later wall paintings of Pompeii and the memorial portraits of Alexandria
that classical painting reached a high standard of realistic
efficiency."
The position...
