aus'm Weerth, _Wandmalereien des
Mittelalters in den Rheinlanden_; Wessely, _Adolph Menzel_;
Woltmann, _Holbein and his Time_; Woltmann, _Geschichte der
Deutschen Kunst im Elsass_; Wurtzbach, _Martin Schongauer_.
EARLY GERMAN PAINTING: The Teutonic lands, like almost all of the
countries of Europe, received their first art impulse from
Christianity through Italy. The centre of the faith was at Rome, and
from there the influence in art spread west and north, and in each
land it was modified by local peculiarities of type and temperament.
In Germany, even in the early days, though Christianity was the theme
of early illuminations, miniatures, and the like, and though there was
a traditional form reaching back to Italy and Byzantium, yet under it
was the Teutonic type--the material, awkward, rather coarse Germanic
point of view. The wish to realize native surroundings was apparent
from the beginning.
It is probable that the earliest painting in Germany took the form of
illuminations.
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