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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 445

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o regard as the necessities ofexistence, had been extinguished forever. Odious tasks hadbeen imposed upon the despairing artist, some of them menialand unworthy, others prostituting his talent to the com-memoration of despicable and hated things. He gazes uponlife now stretching behind him and upon… … C 134, The Last Judgment. East Wall, Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Rome. Michelangelo, 1475-1564. Art Transcendent 429 predecessors or wiii the artists respect. Paul III, the ambi-tious representative of a powerful and unscrupulous family,a fox in his low and cunning diplomacy, a hypocrite in histhinly…

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