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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 443

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stories with freshness and detail. The birthof Christ, the angels appearing to the shepherds, and the bathing of the Child,were hitherto generally united in one picture, but they are here divided intoseveral. The violent scenes of martyrdom are not so successful. Here themasters work is more… … Fig. 113. MEDIEVAL PAINTING—FINAL PERIOD. 4i5 stage, and in these scenes of stirring action falling into exaggerations andbetraying the weakness of his draughtsmanship. By its subject-matter this work is allied to a memorial panel in the BerlinMuseum, with thirty-five small pictures in five tiers ;…

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