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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 98

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ined with green, andedged with gold embroidery. Joseph wears a yellowcloak, also edged with gold. Mary has the Leonardesquetype of face, even with something of the subtle, un-translatable smile curving her delicate lips, the samepurely lined brows of the Gioconda, — the whole ethere-alized, and… … ADORATION OF THE MAGIBy Luini Salle ©ucbatel 61 painter to suggest that Christ would have resembled St.Joseph in physical attributes. In the Adoration, where only the head and shoulders ofJoseph appear, and in profile, the likeness to the conven-tional Christ type is even more noticeable. The scene…

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