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 240
antlylarge; great mistakes occur, such as in the right hand of S. Matthew, whichexhibits five fingers and no thumb; still the cast of drapery is classicaland free from pettiness. The sentiment is helped by the background, which MEDIEVAL ■ PAINTING—EARLY PERIOD. 2 11 consists mainly of landscape… … Vermilion, and gold. The initials arc formed <>f purr geometrical Bgures, With-out foliage-work, or with only the faintest sui^estion of it ; they are chief)} ingold with red borders, and filled in with blur. 1 he Latin Bibles at Bamberg and Zurich shov a higher stage ol the ait. and more…
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