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 268
and a row of eight Dominican saints of life-size ; inthe background a landscape is visible through the round arches of a late Gothicbuilding. This is the external decoration, and, on opening the doors, thecentre picture shows us Calvary, with a crowded assemblage of spectatorsand executioners. On… … 234 HISTORY OF PAINTING, In the arrangement and drawing of the figures there is an evident strivingafter the realistic feeling of the fifteenth century ; the mens heads are allvigorous portraits, while the female heads are meant to be ideal, but they areat the same time expressionless and the…
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