Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 99
subjects, and seeks new ones to its mind—natural rendering offruit and flower and insect and other objects; and at that time, the periodof the Quattrocento, the cartouch, or scrolled and pierced shield-work,appears, borrowed from heraldry. It is the era, then, of Luca della Rob-bia, of niello-work,… … THE RENAISSANCE. 95 Greek anthemion, the fret, and the acanthus, sculptures of scarcely sur-passed loveliness, and grotesqueries so full of spirit that the whole seemsto be a style of light high comedy, suitable only to pleasure, to the delightsof a sensuous love of beauty. And yet it has been used…
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