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f reliefto a smaller panel which less passionately engages our atten-tion. The Creation of Woman (Cm) is one of the least felici-tous of Bible stories for the painters purpose, and Michelangelo,unable to translate it into more inspiring form, contents him-self with hinting at what will not lend… … 386 Mornings with Masters of Art graceful, sylph-like girlish form that other artists affect;all is excellent if not astonishing. Adam, crouching low inthe corner of the field, is buried in a deep, obscuring shadowwhich at once subordinates him appropriately in the field ofvision and symbolizes…
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