The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 227
orked toorapidly. They imitated the brilliantcolour of the Flemings, but with-out achieving their delicacy of touch.The colour of their pictures isharsh and often heavy. They longcontinued to use gold backgroundsinstead of landscapes as a setting fortheir figures, the former being moredazzling to… … FIG. 398.—PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST.ALBERT DURER. (Pinacolhck, Munich.)(Photo, by Hanfstaengl.) taste, the talent for selection. Theircompositions are crowded with fig-ures; these figures arc often grotesque
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