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 445
416 HISTORY OF PAINTING. This poetic feeling comes out with peculiar force in some purely idyllicpictures of the Madonna, for the design of which unexpected and delightfulsituations are invented, particularly in pictures intended not so much for churches … fcJO 0(g °fi\ as for domestic devotion. We here find Mary, not enthroned in solemn dignity,but sitting familiarly with the Child on a flowery sward enclosed by a gardenhedge. The little flowers and stalks are already painted neatly and naturallyalthough the background, instead of a natural…
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