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 360
olouring is harsh and crude inspite of a body-colour of uniform impasto. The pictures are not more barbaricthan the Latin of the poetry. The Italians were not capable of working their own way out of thisrudeness of conception and execution. An improvement in their works MEDIAEVAL PAINTING—CENTRAL… … Fig. 92. good models, it gave an impulse to original creation, and appears alwaysassimilated and transformed without having led to a bald imitation of foreignexamples. In Italy, however, matters stood otherwise, and foreign influences forthe present supplanted the native power of production instead…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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