Dunbar, Margaret Juliana Maria · Edinburgh : Thomas Constable and Co. ; London : Hamilton, Adams, and Co. · leaf 66
o the mischances which befell it and othertreasures of the same kind at the time when the Frenchsoldiers were frequently quartered in the churches in Italy,the plaster on which this masterpiece of fresco was paintedwas not properly prepared, and Leonardo is supposed to haveexperimented on some… … E left Milan next morning en route for Genoa.The country flat and uninteresting as toscenery. At mid-day we stopped to visit asplendid church about four miles from Pavia. The Certosa of Pavia, as it is called, iscertainly the finest building of the pure Italianstyle of architecture I have yet seen.…
Art -- Italy · Italy -- Description and travel
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