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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 498

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ard in the Palazzo Pubblico, and in 1480 the monks of S. Donato in Scopetoordered him to paint them an altar-piece. Neither of these pictures was finished ; THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING IN ITALY. 463 but the sketch, or rather the under-painting, of the second may possibly be theundoubtedly genuine… … Fig. 322. instructive, showing us how the master distributed light and shade- even in amonochrome under-painting. Vasari mentions a number o( early works, hardlyone of which survives. The cartoon of the Delude, the shield on which hepainted serpents and reptiles, and a half-length figure of .1…

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