Ariadne florentina. Six lectures on wood and metal engraving (1904)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Longmans · leaf 197
ng the Church as the bride ofChrist. You could not find a subject requiring moretenderness, purity, or dignity of treatment. Inthis maid, symbolizing the Church, you ask forthe most passionate humility, the most angelicbeauty : Behold, thou art fair, my dove. 1 I 162 V. DESIGN IN THE Now here is… … important to be omitted. Remember, Holbeinrepresents the temper of Northern Reformation.He has all the nobleness of that temper, butalso all its baseness. He represents, indeed,the revolt of German truth against Italian lies ;but he represents also the revolt of Germananimalism against Hebrew…
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