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 127
he highest degree admirable. Thegroups are excellently balanced, and the tumult is distinctly rendered withbut few materials. The incident we have described forms both materiallvand dramatically the central point of the picture. Indeed, it is not oftenthat a crisis of such moving and intense… … ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY. 97 certain things, as the foreshortening of the horse seen in rear, do not appear tobe perfectly correct. So far as we know, the heads—especially that of Darius,whose face, notwithstanding its look of anguish, is full of manly fire—areunsurpassed for emotional expression…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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