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 528
l, Zachariah, Isaiah, and Daniel, and the Persian,Erythraean (Fig. 343), Delphic, Cumaean, and Libyan sibyls ; the moststupendously grand single figures in the whole realm of art—superhuman intheir colossal majesty and attended by god-like children. Indeed, the way inwhich they at once fulfil the… … Fig- 342. above the frescoes represent the families of Christs Ancestry with perfectsimplicity and a marvellous variety and accommodation of the figures to thespace. The whole of this ceiling he painted with his ow n hand ; he sent back theassistants whom he had written for to Florence—among them…
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