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 567
ines,we feel that Raphael must always have composed his pic tures from the fustwith a scheme of colour in his mind as well as of arrangement. At the sametime his modelling and brush work are unfailingly careful . he combines adelicate sfumato handling with conscientious truth of detail, and though… … Fig. 367. The Madonna reading is a motive that occurs repeatedly in his sketches—as at Oxford, and in the Albertina—as well as in the charming ColonnaMadonna in the Berlin Gallery, which is all the more instructive from beingunfinished. The Madonna pictures which have no accessory motive, but…
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