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Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 297
tle and two white butterflies, which are introducedafter the manner of Wolgemut. The sunny green oncopse and mountain throws up the group better than theconventional nimbus could have done. The fair-hairedVirgin, draped entirely in blue with a white veil, recallsvividly the same figure in the… … ADORATION OF THE MAGI 217 colours very liquid, laid on without doubt in tempera, andcovered with oil glazes; the whole tone exceedingly fresh,clear, and brilliant. If it was Barbaris fine work which in-cited Diirer to this delicate and careful method of execution,he has certainly far surpassed the…
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