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 342
subject. Thetreatment of the nude in the first principal picture (Fig. 87) renders itremarkable : correctness and real understanding of the human frame are notperhaps attained ; the heads are too small, and knowledge of the structure ofthe skeleton is wanting, but the movements are not awkward, and… … 3M HISTORY OF PAINTING. mediaeval art, left out. The conventionalising of the trees is also characteristic.As a whole, the ceiling forms one of the foremost examples of severe architec-tural arrangement. and artistic distribution in the whole range of mediaevalpainting. The principal figures rise…
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