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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 336

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st in the field of the arch overthe altar.62 In Westphalia, the paintings in the choir apse of the minster church of S.Patroclus at Soest take the first rank ; according to the fragments of an in-scription, they were executed A.D. 1 166. In the arch appears a gigantic pictureof Christ enthroned in… … neath a frieze with busts of saints we see on the wall of the apse four imposingfigures of kings under architectural canopies, and on the window-spaces tworow s of smaller figures of angels and saints. These paintings arc remarkablefor care of execution, minuteness of fold, together with a rest…

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