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 343
al 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 to a noble dignity, the drawing… … Fig. 88. - first not in the form of altar-pieces, but of antependia, which covered the lowerpart of the front of the altar, as a substitute for drapery. Two works of thiskind from Soest belong to the beginning of the thirteenth century. One ofthese was formerly in the Walpurgis monastery, and is…
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