Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 295
not do to put figures arbitrarily into the desired place orpose; they must put themselves there, quite spontaneouslyand willingly, and for a reason which we can understand andwith which we can sympathize. The noblest example we haveyet found of a composition at once satisfactory in itself,… … B 177, Madonna of the Magnificat. Uffizi, Florence.Botticelli, 1447-1510. Umbria and Her Artist 277 Botticelli wants his Madonna to lean over, and so he makesher reach across the beautiful illuminated manuscript to dipher pen in the inkstand which the little angel rather unac-commodatingly holds…
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