Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · Newton, University Prints · leaf 293
not do to put figures arbitrarily into the desired place orpose; they must put themselves there, quite spontaneouslyand willingly, and for a reason which we can understand andwith which we can sympathize. The noblest example we haveyet found of a composition at once satisfactory in itself,… … B 177, Madonna of the Magnificat. Uffizi, Florence.Botticelli, 1447-1510. Umbria and Her Artist i^j^j Botticelli wants his Madonna to lean over, and so he makesher reach across the beautiful illuminated manuscript to dipher pen in the inkstand which the little angel rather unac-commodatingly holds…
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