Dunbar, Margaret Juliana Maria · Edinburgh : Thomas Constable and Co. ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. · leaf 244
r parts of this celebrated ceiling. I must,however, at least name the famous fresco on the end wall, ofthe Last Judgment, which Michael Angelo commenced inhis sixtieth year. He began it for Clement VII., and finishedit in seven years, during the pontificate of Paid III. It is amost extraordinary… … <^jM° ow lovely is this fresh spring-time, and howsweet the young beauty with which it decksthe crumbling palaces, the fallen pillars, theruined towers of the ancient city ! It has stolen on me with a sweet surprise.-> I was wont to think of Rome rather beneath therich dyes of autumn,—with…
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