History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1880)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933, Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 125
All these scattered objects on a whiteground—mussels, snail-shells, fish-bones and other bones, lobster-claws, leaves,cherries, grape-stalks, oyster-shells, and the mouse which is making itself athome among the scraps—produce a very natural and pleasant effect. The finestexample of the subject of… … Fig. 23. popular works of ancient art, and does in reality set before us a most daintypicture of still-life, showing great artistic power in the natural treatment ofglancing lights and shadows on the plumage. The doves sit on the edge of around bowl filled with water ; one of them bends her neck…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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