The artists have relinquished the design of representing scenes with perfect truthfulness, and have recurred as a general rule to the plain backgrounds of the first period.

This is particularly the case in the hunting scenes, which are seldom accompanied by any landscape whatsoever.

In processional and military scenes landscape is introduced, but sparingly; the forms, for the most part, resembling those of the second period.

Now and then, however, in such scenes the landscape has been made the object of special attention, becoming the prominent part, while the human figures are accessories.

It is here that an advance in art is particularly discernible.