The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 351
CAXVAS, ETC. of some more spacious Avorld, 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 wellcapahle of mastering a horse or of crushing an enemy. This great… … Fig. 250.—The Holy Kaniily, by Leonardo da Vinci, from the Picture in the iMuscum at St. Petersburg. Next we have Raphael, il divino 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. JSlichael…
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