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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1918)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 92

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aracteristic mosttroublesome to its possessor. All this is fanciful, a thingfor which nature gives no counterpart, but as contrasted withthe Vow of Obedience, it has the great advantage that every-thing is self-interpreting. The novice could guess, if not thename, at least the spirit of the figure… … B 70, Envy. Chapel of the Arena, Padua.Giotto, 1266 ?-1336. 74 Mornings with Masters of Art Peruzzi Chapels, commemorative of the mighty familieswho preceded the Medici and were wrecked by the earliervicissitudes of banking, Giotto has given us the Story ofSaint Francis and the Story of Saint John.…

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