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 396
at Berlin ;9it contains fifty-four pictures from the legends of S. Benedicta, the patroness \!1.1)L4;VAL PAINTING—FINAL PERIOD. 365 of the abbey. The limbs arc far too emaciated, and the wrists often un-naturally thin ; in incidents of emotion the turning up of eyes and drawing upof eyebrows pass… … Fig. 96. a reddish tinge. The ground within the simple border is almost withoutexception formed of gold-leaf (Fig. 97). An artistically interesting class of manuscripts, which at this time cameinto vogue in France, is that of picture-Bibles. The Bible historice took inFrance something like the…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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