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 96
ous variety of colour is har-monised to an appropriate soberness of tone, The wings represent themartyrdoms of S. John the Evangelist and of the Baptist. In the first the THE RENASCENCE IN THE NORTH, 63 composition is rather crowded, and the grotesque individualisation of theexecutioners verges on… … Fig. 157. the Hermitage at S. Petersburg. Two of his best de votional pictures are half-length figures of Christ and the Virgin at Antwerp, of which Studio copies,slightly varied, are numerous—for example, those in the National Gallery,Massys is even better known as the originator of a peculiar…
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