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The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)

Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 148

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ls sharply onthe faces of the Virgin, the donor, Joseph and Christslittle body but only slightly on the kneeling shepherdlad. The graceful positions of the figures are a trifle toomuch planned, perhaps, though Joseph has a very naturalease. Not at the Louvre can Jacopo Robusti, he who isalways… … ©ranfce ©aletie 103 with Ruskin in ranking him superior to all saveMichelangelo, yet at his best it must be acknowledgedthat only the giant Florentine rivalled him in force,majesty of imagination, in virility, in fertility of inven-tion. The mere name of Tintoretto suggests a veritablepassion of…

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