painting in Asia Minor, Phoenicia and her colonies. The
terra-cottas, figurines in bronze, and sculptures can be
studied to more advantage. The best collection of Cypriote
antiquities is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. A new
collection of Judaic art has been recently opened in the
Louvre.

CHAPTER III.

GREEK PAINTING.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED: Baumeister, _Denkmaeler des klassischen
Altertums_--article "_Malerei_;" Birch, _History of Ancient
Pottery_; Brunn, _Geschichte der griechischen Kuenstler_;
Collignon, _Mythologie figuree de la Grece_; Collignon,
_Manuel d'Archaeologie Grecque_; Cros et Henry,
_L'Encaustique et les autres procedes de Peinture chez les
Anciens_; Girard, _La Peinture Antique_; Murray, _Handbook
of Greek Archaeology_; Overbeck, _Antiken Schriftquellen zur
geschichte der bildenen Kunste bie den Griechen_; Perrot and
Chipiez, _History of Art in Greece_; Woerman, _Die
Landschaft in der Kunst der antiken Volker_; _see also books
on Etruscan and Roman painting_.

GREECE AND THE GREEKS: The origin of the Greek race is not positively
known. It is reasonably supposed that the early settlers in Greece
came from the region of Asia Minor, either across the Hellespont or
the sea, and populated the Greek islands and the mainland. When this
was done has been matter of much conjecture. The early history is
lost, but art remains show that in the period before Homer the Greeks
were an established race with habits and customs distinctly
individual. Egyptian and Asiatic influences are apparent in their art
at this early time, but there is, nevertheless, the mark of a race
peculiarly apart from all the races of the older world.

The development of the Greek people was probably helped by favorable
climate and soil, by commerce and conquest, by republican institutions
and political faith, by freedom of mind and of body; but all these
together are not sufficient to account for the keenness of intellect,
the purity of taste, and the skill in accomplishment which showed in
every branch of Greek life. The cause lies deeper in the fundamental
make-up of the Greek mind, and its eternal aspiration toward mental,
moral, and physical ideals. Perfect mind, perfect body, perfect
conduct in this world were sought-for ideals. The Greeks aspired to
completeness. The course of education and race development trained
them physically as