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 526
hat rise from the plinth-like armsof the thrones. All have their heads—as the prophets themselves have—towardsthe centre; while the figures in the panels all gravitate, so to speak, towards theend wall, on which Michael Angelo subsequently painted the Last Judgment.These figures, beyond holding up… … Fig. 340. not occupied by the pictures properly speaking ; the master has simply usedthese splendidly vigorous and beautiful beings in lieu of arabesques or floralornament to frame in the Biblical subjects ; they arc there the embodiment, soto speak, of the genius of architecture. The scheme of the…
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