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 255
figures and many of the motives are still quite an-tique, but the expressions of the heads, though quiet and solemn, border upon theascetic, and the movements often show a want of complete knowledge of theorganic structure of the body. Ezekiel before the Lord (Fig. 60) is an unusuallydignified… … Fisr. 60. condition, and contains fourteen large pictures, which with their simple borders ofdull gold cover in each case the whole folio page ; it may be presumed that theyhave been taken from models of a better period. In the first picture Davidas a shepherd sits playing on the psaltery, while a…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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