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 314
ibute money with much dignity. A comparison withMasolinos fresco opposite is inevitable (see Fig. 251, p. 274). Quite irrespect-ive of Masaccios general superiority of type and character, and the absenceof a certain weakness and conventionality, which are conspicuous even inMasolinos picture of… … 28o HISTORY OF PAINTING. always simple, but his perspective is more satisfactory than Masolinos, andthe landscape does not come too forward, as it certainly does in MasolinosPeter Preaching. The colouring, again, is altered in character by the intro-duction of stronger shadows, and Masolinos rosy…
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