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 131
d to be a Muse, is preserved in the museumat Cortona. The head has touches of a Raphaelesque grace in form and expres-sion. Its authenticity is not altogether beyond doubt, but it seems to us all themore probably genuine inasmuch as we cannot see in it the traces of any indi- IOO HISTORY OF… … Fig. 25. We must mention in this connection the splendid paintings on the four faces ofa large alabaster sarcophagus found within the last ten years in a tomb at Corneto,and now in the museum at Florence. The subject is a fight of Amazons. Onthe finest of the longer faces of the sarcophagus the…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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