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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 319

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prettilydrawn, a devotional picture of the Saviour between Peter and Paul, and manyother religious subjects, enclosed in the gold initial letters with their coloured 2 88 HISTORY OF PAINTING. ornaments and diapered grounds. The latter is full of biblical and legendary-representations, which cover… … Fig. 77- ence ; the style is severe, in spite of some coarseness in the execution, and theconception often singular. The colouring is powerful, and in this case oftenremarkable for the constant use of green. The revival of art in the time of Frederick Barbarossa is most conspicuousin Saxony, and…

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