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Title: Catalogue of paintings and drawings.
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Worcester Art Museum
Subjects: Art Catalogs
Publisher: Worchester, Massachusetts
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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aresubservient to the aesthetic. Tempera on panel, 27^ inches by 2oJ^ inches
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MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINT AND DONOR FRENCH, KARLY FirrKKXTH CI^XTIRVMADONNA AND CHILD Willi SAINT AND DONOR This panel Is a dramatic composition In red and black. TIkMrgIn, wearing a black mantle, Is seated on a throne draped witha soft red fabric covered with a delicate tracery of black. Thesaints robe is of the same red, relieved by a vestment of white.The donor, in a black garment, with trimmings and stockings ofthe prevailing red. Is kneeling before the Virgin. The pictureshows pure Slenese Influence in the Madonna and Child. Thetendency towards naturalism, much In evidence In the art ofmediaeval miniature painters, is observable in the figure of thesaint, suggesting, In the bold sculptural treatment of the robes,Flemish influence through Claes Sluyter. There is an asceticspirit of unusual intensity In this figure. The red In the picture suggests the Catalan school, and it ispossible that the panel comes from the region of Avignon andToulouse, and was therefore subject to influ

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