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 542
s are all devotional, but within theselimits he is quite admirable. He exalted the realistic severity of the precedingperiod to an idealism which, being inspired by nature, never degenerated intoconventionality or mannerism ; he composed his groups with a true sense ofbeauty and adopted the richer… … 5o8 HISTORY OF PAINTING. use of the lay figure ; still, through all his feeling for beauty, we are aware ofan ascetic vein that reminds us of the work of earlier painters. Of his first period, until his taking monastic vows in 1500, we havea considerable number of drawings,09 and a fresco of the…
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