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 178
this branch of art. Before himwood-engraving had been restricted almostexclusively to outline, not unfrequentlycoloured afterwards by hand ; Durer, byintroducing light and shade, gave it colour—or, more accurately, tone—instead ofcolouring. It would be impossible ofcourse to speak here of all… … Fig. 190 144 HISTORY OF PAINTING. contradistinction to a Smaller Passion, twelve pages; and the life of the Virgin,twenty pages. Diirer published the three series combined in I 5 1 1 ; indeed, thetwo last were not complete till then ; the Apocalypse was brought out in1498 perfect, with the…
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