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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 540

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f Michael Angelo. His Justitia in the PalazzoPubblico at Volterra might be taken for a work by Sodoma if it were notsigned. He afterwards distinguished himself in sculpture as well as in painting.It was his graceless task to clothe the nakedness of the figures in his mastersLast Judgment, which… … 5°6 HISTORY OF PAINTING. in fact, a grand composition, full of vigour and emotional power (Fig. 350), andhas impressed many successive generations. His frescoes in the same church,of scenes from the life of the Virgin, are very inferior. A singular piece ofwork is the slate panel in the Louvre,…

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