Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and their works : a handbook (1901)
Clement, Clara Erskine, 1834-1916 · Boston : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 692
res have great vir-tues, but are monotonous and tiresome. He was painfully truthful;truthful in detail, in outline, in everything. His color is clear andbright. He painted figures badly, and in his best works they wereilone by other artists. He executed with such care that his pii-turesare not… … XAMETE — ZAGEL. 627 Xamete was a sculptor who is known only by the magnificentportal of the Cath. cloister at Cuenca. This was carved between1546 and 1550, of Arcos stone. It is twenty-eight feet high, sup-ported by Corinthian columns, and ornamented with cupids. tritons,harpies, etc., etc., as…
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