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 154
e earlier style, are substituted theincapable reed-like or candelabrum-like supports of which we have spoken. Butthe form and limits of the general design are not yet violated. Xext, the newsystem of slender supports is developed until the whole architectural composi-tion becomes transformed into… … Fig- 32. the wall-spaces it is designed to enclose, and the whole surface is overrun witharbitrary combinations of slender and impossible architecture. We can hardlyventure, however, to claim a regular chronological succession for all thesevariations. The great bulk of the examples which especially…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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