History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 222
he root EARLY CHRISTIAN PAINTING. 193 falls dead according to the legend. The head of Dioskorides expresses joy atthe discovery. In the fifth picture Discovery stands in a niche of a pillaredhall holding the mandrake, while on one side a painter sits at an easel paintingit, and on the other… … Fig. 53- delightful style of execution. The snakes, beetles, and birds, towards the endof the book arc equally skilful, but treated more drily. The splendid dedica-tory picture suffices to prove that we have to do here with an original work,and that the illustrations are not merely copies of…
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