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 162
on (Fig. 37) hasalso been recently discovered. Among other heroes Herakles was much too ANCIENT GREECE AND ITALY. I31 populai to be left out. Several of his exploits have been immortalised in thesepaintings. Many other subjects have evidently been taken from tragedy : tothis class belong… … Fig. 37- and Narcissus falling in love with his own reflection was naturally a subjectquite after the hearts of these painters. Turning to the class of pictures which take their subjects from daily life,these, as we should expect, exhibit the same light and cheerful spirit. Wemay, with Helbig,…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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