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History of mediaeval art (1887)

Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 459

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ich are in the Library of Berlin. The ac-tion is especially forcible in the representations of profane subjects,and although the gestures, drawn directly from nature, are some-times exaggerated and contorted, they are not the less striking ineffect or the less comprehensible. That the execution was… … Fig. 260.—The Mothers of Bethlehem. From Werinhers Liet von der Maget. ever, in the first half of the thirteenth century, and consequently atthe close of the period under consideration, by which time betterspecimens of art were circulated from convent to convent. It mayhave been in view of these…

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