The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 353
ANVAS, ETC. of some more spacious world, to the proportions of which their physicalvigour and their moral energy would well respond. The very women do notpossess the grace of their sex ; we might fancy them valiant Amazons wellcapable of mastering a horse or of crushing an enemy. This great… … Fig. 250.—The Holy Family, by Leonardo da Vinci, from the Picture in the Museum at St. Petersburg. Next we have Raphael, il clivino Sanzio, as he was called by his numerousadmirers, whose genius was constantly attaining to grandeur by means ofsimplicity, and to power by means of reserve, Michael…
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