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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 245

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o be clumsy the ornamental character is always kept inview. Among the illustrations, strictly speaking, those to the Book of Revela-tion are particularly noteworthy. Both the text and the illustrations nodoubt owed their existence to the Wittenberg edition with the drawings byDiirer, of which they… … Fig- 235- which Holbein drew on the block itself, and, as he was forced to adapt his styleof engraving to the artists delicate and often very minute drawings, he wasthe originator of the fine light modern method. Of isolated compositions themost interesting are an unique print in the Basle Museum…

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