Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the canton Ticino (1913)
Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, Streatfeild, R. A. (Richard Alexander), 1866-1919 · New York, E. P. Dutton & company · leaf 182
have been thework of some one of the Valse- sian sculptors. There are also the figures that strike thequarters of Sir John Bennetts city clock in Cheapside. Theautomatic movements of these last-named figures wouldhave struck the originators of the Varallo chapels withenvy. They aimed at realism so… … CHAPELS AT OROPA 176 Alps and Sanctuaries crow to Peter by a cuckoo-clock arrangement, if it hadbeen presented to them. This opens up the whole questionof realism versus conventionalism in art—a subjectmuch too large to be treated here. As I have said, the founders of these Italian chapelsaimed at…
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