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 266
of the whole.The grounds, gold throughout, and no longer showing any indication of land-scape, architecture, or special locality, come into constantly varying relationswith the pictures according to the play of light on the vaultings—now, in fulllight, outblazing all the rest, and now, in shadow,… … Fig. 65. Bethlehem contains fragments of a great series of pictures, completed, accord-ing to an inscription, by the painter and mosaist Ephraim, A.D. 1 169.56 Of therepresentations from the lives of Mary and of Christ, in the choir and transept,only three now remain either in part or in the whole.…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
Internet Archive · Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
