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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 420

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idle disputes to which his prophecy hasgiven such endless provocation are hardly chargeable to hisaccount. Why then this supreme honor, this universalpraise ? There is some reason to fear that the honor accorded tothis figure by Michelangelos contemporaries was not basedon the deepest… … C 117, The Prophet Jonah. Ceiling, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome.Michelangelo, 1475-1564. 404 Mornings with Masters of Art Michelangelos skill in foreshortening more apparent thanhere. Every degree of foreshortening finds application tosome part of this curiously postured figure, the whole…

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