Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 385
difficulties tothe decorator from the first. Even the mosaicists had felt thesedifficulties. They show obvious hesitation in inserting figuresin domes and apses, whose tilted surfaces throw the figures outof their natural position. On the whole, however, they ac-cepted the situation. But with the… … o •+3> ft TO O CC o O The Great Pope, His Tomb and His Chapel 367 fifteenth century was a device hit upon that seems to havemet with instant welcome by the decorative painters. OneMelozzo from the Httle town of ForH in Eastern Italy was em-ployed to paint the great church of the Apostles in…
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