The art of the Vatican; being a brief history of the palace, and an account of the principal art treasures within its walls (1903)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L. C. Page & company · leaf 144
is form. Every curving line isfelt through the clinging robe. The colour of it isa lucent violet gray, as if woven of clouds. His faceexpresses infinite benignity, without joy, almost,perhaps, without hope. The next, the Creation of Eve, is one of the smalldivisions with the four splendid youths on… … 04 < - y. ^ Xlbc Stt^tluc Gbapcl 123 kneeling witli clasped hands before (he Eternal.This time the Lord is walking npon the earth hehas created, and here he is more than ever like apatriarch of the tril)e of Israel. Wrapi)e(l in avolnminous garment, which he draws witli onehand close alx)nt him,…
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