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The Egyptian painter distinguished, for instance, between a dark brown for men and a pale yellow for women’s bodies. The real flesh tone of the person portrayed obviously mattered as little in this context as the real colour of a river matters to a cartographer.
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Gombrich, Reflections on the Greek Revolution

E. Gombrich, “Reflections on the Greek Revolution”, in E. Gombrich, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation, London: Phaidon, 1968, pp. 99-125

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