History of ancient, early Christian, and mediaeval painting (1906)
Woltmann, Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert, 1841-1880, Woermann, Karl, 1844-1933 · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 143
is effectivelywrought by adapting the strokes of the graver to the contour of the surface ;textures are very skilfully distinguished ; his compositions are highly pictorial,and the landscape backgrounds are of a beauty and variety as yet quite un- io8 HISTORY OF PAINTING. known to German art. With… … Fig. 174. physical deformity—for instance, in the men who mock or buffet Christ—heis only illustrating the spirit of his own time. His Passion series were popularand widely imitated, because they were intelligible to the popular mind ; buttender devotion stamps his virgins and saints, and in his…
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