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The bases of design (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 364

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: Signorelli,Cosimo Roselli, Perugino, Ghirlandajo, Botticelli.The ceilinor remained unadorned, and now MichaelAngelo was called upon to design his great sacredepic of painting, having to deal with a space 150feet in length by 50 feet in breadth, upon theconcave surface of a round vault, without… … MICHAEL ANGELO. CEILING OF THE SISTINE CHAPEL. THK INDIVIDUAL INFLUKNCl-said, doubtful of his own skill in fresco, called inthe aid of painters from Florence to aid him incarrying out his design, but was so disappointedwith their work that he effaced it and dismissedthem. He then shut himself up…

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