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 353
are represented with much simple dignity, andare impressive from the marked individuality of the figures and the masterlydisposal of the masses. Ghirlandaio shares with the two Lippis, father and son,a fondness for introducing subordinate groups which was unknown to Masaccio ;and here again he… … Fig. 274. pictures with frank truthfulness ; but with all this accessory genre there is alofty nobility of feeling, as in the Birth of the Virgin (Fig. 274). Thecostume of the time is freely introduced, but the influence of the antique isalso perceptible in the draperies, and the effort after an…
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