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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 439

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Its similarity to the mosaics of the early Christianbasilicas is probably due to the subject, as well as to the smallernumber of figures. Unfortunately, the effect of the whole is im-paired by its bad state of preservation, especially by the flesh tintshaving become black through a decomposition of… … Fig. 247.—The Last Judgment. Wall Painting at Oberzell. the loss of the battle-piece which was executed by order of KingHenry I., in the upper hall of his palace at Merseburg, in com-memoration of the battle against the Hungarians near Riet on theUnstrut, in the year 933. It may, however, be…

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