German masters of art
German Masters of Art by Helen A. Dickinson, published in New York by Frederick A. Stokes in 1914, is an art-history survey of German painters for a general readership. Its plates are photographic reproductions of altarpieces and paintings: a crucifixion, a Virgin and Child with saints, a lamentation over Christ's body, and a winged altarpiece with a central panel. A designer might take the dense gold-ground compositions, rigid figure groupings and haloed saints as models for devotional or period-styled imagery.
