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 525
efully selected an incident which might require the treatment of the naked human figure, and thestudies that remain prove that he drew them from the li\mi; model The next great work was the decoration of the ceiling of the- Sistine Chapel ; the walls had already been painted under the direction i… … Fig. 338. that he went unwillingly to work. It was completed, however, by the autumnof 1 5 1 2,42 and when it was uncovered no one doubted that it was the greatestwork ever achieved by the palette and brush. The ceiling (Fig. 339) has been described again and again. The masters THE GOLDEN AGE OF…
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