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The art of Florence, an interpretation (1912)

Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · Newton, University Prints · leaf 120

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their straightness, their perfectly formalarrangement, their absolute symmetry and their lack of alltrace of perspective, they vie with the mosaics themselvesin their loyalty to the old tradition. We may describe thewhole as a painting in mosaic style, done in Giotto colors, byan artist of singular… … B 83, Paradise. Strozzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella, Florence.Andrea Orcagna, 1308-1368. I04 Mornings with Masters of Art ground, where are represented in smaller scale a large numberof figures in unmistakable perspective. The next suggestionis that he preferred the formal and fiat style to the freer…

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