A descriptive catalogue of the maiolica, Hispano-Moresco, Persian, Damascus, and Rhodian wares in the South Kensington Museum : with historical notes, marks, & monograms (1873)
South Kensington Museum, Fortnum, C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward), 1820-1899 · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 736
breadth of treatment andan effeft of rilievo and of diftance, which are of a very high order.The handling is like that of the great illuminators of the day, asGirolamo dai Libri, and others, while the delicate tranfparency of thenicely graduated colouring has fomething of the effecfl of oil… … The compofition is in a rocky landfcape, through openings ofwhich are feen a mountainous diftance, with a town and a river orlake ; in the foreground the open farcophagus lies diagonally, furroundedby a group of eight foldiers moftly in armour, and in attitudes of variedproftration and alarm, a…
Majolica
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