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The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)

Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 76

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upon to execute thelikeness of Eleonora di Toledo, the wife of theGrand Duke Cosimo I of Florence; his brush, in-deed, was kept inordinately busy portraying notonly the duke and his consort and their offspring,but also the natural daughter of his Grace. Bron-zino, in fact, was quite a fashionable… … ©allcriea Qnc ant) Ubtee s^ wholly enjoyable. The modelling is sure, the col-ouring full-bodied, while the care with which theaccessories — notably the beautiful figuring of thebodice — are painted, gives the composition therichness of pure decoration. An artist of an earlier period, Carlo…

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