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 246
AINTING—EARLY PERIOD. from miniatures, attained a greater degree of independence. The art had atcommand a highly-developed system of ornament, which it treated with masterlytechnical skill, and in which the original artistic bent of the Germanic races heldits own and maintained its special… … Fig. 59- art of Italy ; but at the same time it exhibited an original tendency, not contentwith repeating over and over again sonic rigidly established scheme ol figuresand combinations, but endeavouring to realise the appearances ol living actionand purpose. What fettered this endeavour was the…
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