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 254
at theyhave been taken from models of a better period. In the first picture Davidas a shepherd sits playing on the psaltery, while a beautiful classical female MEDI/EVAL PAINTING—EARLY PERIOD. 225 figure, personifying Melody, leans with her left arm on his shoulder, the rightarm resting carelessly… … Fig, 61. the water, and a dog ; a landscape with antique buildings (indicating the townof Bethlehem), fountains and hills, forms the background, In spite of incorrectperspective, and innumerable errors of detail, which show hou far the power olexecution has lagged behind that of conception, the…
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