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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 232

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e front covers her face withher hands to shut out the horrid spectacle which she cannotbear, but the one behind frightened and recoiling, none theless gazes with a curiosity not quite repressed, at the objectof her fear. Off to the left children run screaming andfalling over one another in their… … B 436, The Feast of Herod (Panel, Font). S. Giovanni, Siena.Donatello, 1386-1466. 214 Mornings with Masters of Art his forgotten dignity. The startHng suddenness with whichthis motive of terror is brought Uke a thunderbolt in amongthis maudlin crowd is the very ideal of the dramatic. Wehave had…

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