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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 625

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produce that ecstatic idealism which alone renders the treatmentof such a subject possible. The religious purport of this work has been much 59° HISTORY OF PAINTING. discussed, as well as the scheme of treatment of the dome-surface ; but itremains a marvel of ingenuity and technique. Besides these… … can be regarded as genuine. He, like Michael Angelo, may have paintedone now and then ; but he, like the great Florentine, had the subjectivespirit which can only express itself and not transcribe others. One of themost charming of Correggios early works in Parma is the Marriage of S.Catherine, now…

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