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 347
inthe richness of the costumes is chara< teristic. The allegorical figures oi theVirtues executed for the Mercatan/.ia are no less remarkable tor the* caretul 312 HISTORY OF PAINTING. treatment of the drapery; the Prudentia hangs in the gallery of the Uffizi,where the five others are preserved… … Fig. 270. Two quite small pictures of Hercules vanquishing Antaeus and slaying theHydra are, on the other hand, more like Antonio s work. These are not thepictures of Hercules mentioned by Vasari, who speaks of three, each five bracciahigh, in the Casa Medici. Finally, we come to a number of…
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