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 406
the triumphal arch in the background. In two of the pictures there isa very singular alteration of the point of sight. Instead of placing it on thelevel of the heads of the figures represented he has selected a point of sightbelow the plane on which they stand; thus, the pavement being concealed,… … skill; but it is in point of fact nothing more than an attempt to apply thelaws of sculpture to the art of painting. In the picture of S. fames blessinga convert on the way to his death, we are amazed at the learning with whuh 373 HISTORY OF PAINTING. the foreshortening is managed ; still these,…
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