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 243
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… … the first portrait of Meyer that Holbein painted with that in this votive picture,we see a marked advance alike in apprehension and in technique ; and betweenthe two it is easy to trace his progress through the other works that remainto us. Of the year 1 5 1 9 there are the fine portrait of…
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