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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 313

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the Discussion (Disputa) Concerning the Trinity,the School of Athens, and Parnassus. Something concretethe popular mind demands, and if official titles do not giveit, so much the worse for official titles. (C 160) The Disputa is an astonishing work. We no longerhave a group of figures arranged in a… … Raphael in Rome 295 est of all, there is a pavement which looks much as though itwere going to be the pavement of a church. In the rear isa raised platform where we find, as we expect, the altar andupon the altar the Host, the most significant symbol of thechurch. But, amazing to relate, we find no…

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