Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 321
y those tightly closed lips, Holbein aloneknew how to suggest in the telling lines on the sensiti^•e face.How wonderfully those expressi\e hands supplement the fiail 291 292 GERMAN PAIXTIXG delicac) of the head and act as wining servants in obeying themassive intellect! The technic of the picture… … FiG. 206.—Holbein. Portrait of Erasmus. Louvre, Paris. tied at Basle, the great center of literature at that time. Thenit was tliat his friendship with Erasmus began, and also hisconnection with John Froben of Amerbach printing-pressfame. He now spent some time in making diawings for title-page…
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