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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 154

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ut bending to the right, Daniel is inscribing some-thing upon the tablet on the block beside him. Heis scanning his lines with great earnestness, and hehas flung his left arm over the book in his lap, sothat the wrist helps to keep it in position. The ease,freedom, grace, and splendid swing of the… … DANIELBy Michelangelo; from Sistine Ceiling XTbc SiBtinc Cbapcl 133 which his hair is tumbled backward as if but a moment before he had run impatient fingers throughit. His face is in nearly three-quarters, the eyesare down, a slight pressure alx>ut the lips expressingthe intentness with which…

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