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 242
Northern Italy ; the Virgin may have been studied from Holbeins wife, Elsbeth, the widow of one Schmidt, towhom he had then lately been married. On her right hand stands S.Martin, in his bishops mitre, and on her left S. Ursus, in shining armour.Even more famous than this lovely picture is the… … the subject is in fact perfectly simple. The Virgin stands on a carpet ina shell-shaped niche, holding the infant Christ in her arms; at her feet 208 HISTORY OF PAINTING. kneel the burgomaster and his family. Of the three women the farthest fromthe spectator is his first wife, who died in 151 I, in…
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