Bernini and other studies in the history of art (1914)
Norton, Richard, 1872-1918 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 208
d are purely Roman (Plate LI). The Florentine portraits show these same characteristics.Among them also the children and women seem at first glanceto be Grecian or Venetian in character, but, when looked atmore closely, one sees that those features which are not merecopies of nature but which show… … Plate LI. ART OF PORTRAITURE 91 In these the Greek quality of quietness and repose is verymarked and is due to the artist being called upon to representfaces modelled by the stilling touch of death and no longer tobe thought of as showing active forces. But even in thesefigures the intense…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680 · Giorgione, 1477-1511 · Sculpture
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