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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 565

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(Fig. 366, in the Pitti Gallery,with that of his wife, I 505 ; they are powerfully realistic, but a little of theconventionality of the portraits of the fifteenth century still clings to themBesides others in the Florentine galleries we may mention the portrait ofhimself, at the age of about… … THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAINTING IN ITALY. 53i new era alike in form and in feeling. They are even more secular in sentimentthan the most secular of the Florentine Madonnas of the previous century ; theirecclesiastical motive is barely indicated by a fast-fading nimbus, but Raphaelelevates his Virgins…

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