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 324
ven, is brought in ; and an overflow-ing inventiveness and caprice is combined with the formal skill which oftenallows itself to handle motives of violent action, but always grasps suchmotives with assured boldness, and has even some knowledge of the nude ;while in flow of line and largeness and… … Fig. 80. 294 HISTORY OF PAINTING. all this, modern research has often been tempted to trace a symbolical meaning;detecting either reminiscences of Northern myths, or mystical symbols ofreligion. But in reality the unmistakable models for these shapes of brute andmonster are to be found in Oriental…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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