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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 414

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had no possible sympathy. It is quite signifi-cant that the little figure that elsewhere voices the sacred mes-sage, should here be degraded to a menial service. He comesdown and holds the book in which this minor prophet is read-ing and from which he is apparently copying excerpts. Itwould be… … C 119, The Prophet Ezekiel. Ceiling, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.Michelangelo, 1475-1564. 39^ Mornings with Masters of Art manuscript which he holds mechanically and forgotten in hishand, but listening with all possible attention to the little fig-ure that with excited mien and gesture is now…

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