Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 21
no doubt, of the time, and of the manners of the peopleamong whom Diirer lived, but certainly devoid of dignity, and in no wise answering to thespirit in which the subject would have been treated by Jan van Eyck, or Roger van derWeyden, or by Diirers immediate predecessor, Schcingauer. Even the… … angelic or saintly beings above tlie level of ordinary mortals:he always gives them homely, honest burgher-faces and en-cumbers them with a prodigious amount of clothing: appar-ently for no other reason than the enjoyment he has indesigning complicated folds of drapery. What strongercontrast could…
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