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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 85

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re so important a part of thestory and yet are pictorially subordinated. To be surethat we see them, his shepherds look at them, knowing thatwe will look where they look, in deference to a universalhabit. (B 61) The Flight into Egypt is suggestive of the resourceand of the limitations of Giottos… … B 61, The Flight into Egypt. Chapel of the Arena, Padua.Giotto, 1266 ?-1336. The First of the Moderns 67 a donkey by Ghirlandajo. He pricks up his ears and looksout of his eyes straight forward, with a lively curiosity atthe new born babe, completely, though unintentionally,humanized by the…

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