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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 472

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his offering. And his expression passes into one of deep and mournful MEDIAEVAL PAINTING—FINAL PERIOD. 441 depression when he goes out brooding into the fields and meets the youngshepherds who seem to question one another with looks of intelligent sympathy(Fig. 1 20). In the meeting of Joachim and… … Fig. 121. Although in the subject of the Birth of the Virgin tradition has dictated boththe representation of the lying-in room and the touch of familiar life in thewashing of the infant (who appears twice in the picture), still the great point inGiottos treatment is the expression of the mother as…

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