Muther, Richard, 1860-1909 · London : J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton · leaf 388
y interesting mixture.When he exhibited his firstpictures it was as if oneheard a refined music afterthe tom-tom of Piloty. Inhis Martyr on the Cross,which appeared in the springof 1867 in the Munich Kunst-verein, he first struck thatbitter-sweet, half-torturing,half-ensnaring tone in whichhe… … GABRIEL MAX. Griiphischc KuHst. 348 THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING feast is so thrilled by the heavenly peace in the expression of the unhappygirls face that he lays a crown of roses at the foot of the cross, andbecomes a convert to the faith for which she has suffered. The mysteriousmortuary…
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