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 236
their forms as icJitJiyomorpJiicfish-shaped), ornitJioidic (bird shaped), and so on (Fig. 55). Gradually these fan-tastic attempts got farther, and animal forms of another kind are found—strangemonsters, single or fighting with each other, human heads, and combinations ofthe forms of man and… … such as could 2o6 HISTORY OF TAINTING. fishes or semi-human monsters, coloured drawings of the Madonna, the Evange-lists with animals heads, and a grievously rude and formless Crucifixion.5 Here and there on the Continent the Irish style appears in combinationwith the Frankish or the Early…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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