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 322
allyof the nature not of painting but of writing, the Romanesque period had MEDIEVAL PAINTING—CENTRAL PERIOD. 291 hitherto followed the Carolingian style, and carried on, or at most slightlymodified, its system of scroll, foliage, and animal designs. That which had beenonly secondary, leaf-work and… … Fig. 78. blue, green, silver, etc., on a gold ground, we find an S in which the body ofthe letter itself is formed of a dragon, and the filling-in consists of convention-alised foliage issuing from the jaws and tail (Fig. 79). In the Psalter of theLandgrave Hermann at Stuttgart we find a very…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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