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 87
of heroines, butwe should expect from the general tendency of the master that these would beonly the chief figures in compositions illustrating their respective myths. WhenPliny, however, specifically describes as large pictures his Calypso, Io, 56 HISTORY OF PAINTING. Andromeda, and also his… … ){.A,JiBREtliD-/</>/0U/9 Fig. 9. instance, the Hyakinthos, the Dionysos, and the Nekyia (the last apparently apiece in which the landscape element was predominant) ; and among femalefigures, the Danae and the celebrated personification of Nemea. Of the Nemea,indeed, it is expressly said that…
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