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 526
ed under Yussuf I. (a.D. I 348). If, next,it were possible on the strength of the figures to assume that we had herebefore us the work of Christian, say of French, artists in the service of theMahommedan princes, our assumption would be disproved by another featurewhich is characteristic of these… … Fig. 136. tion of the leverets and other little animals on the ground, the birds on theboughs, the dates, cypresses, and the rest. All these are treated in a quiteexceptional manner, even though their treatment does not in every par-ticular rise above the conventional, and though the perspective is…
Painting, Early Christian · Painting, Medieval
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