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 323
, only in this casewith the addition of the figure of a man driving a spear between the jaws ofthe dragon. All the other initials in this work are masterly, as, for instance,the first capital B, which is formed of an admirably worked-out acanthuspattern, amidst which appear little animals, lions… … Fig. 79. this time at Cividale in Friuli two initials with battles of knights are remark-able. Similar initials, and no other kind of pictures, occur in a manuscript ofS. Augustine De Triuitatc, written in the monastery of Engelberg in Switzerland,under the direction of the abbot Berchtold {d. A.D.…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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