Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 220
Fig. 106. — Leafage of Brescia. ARCHITECTURAL CARVING 177 compositions, is uniformly weak and characterless. This hasbeen already noticed (p. 170) in the work of the Lombardi.It is equally marked in all other neo-classic representations of imaginary creatures. The south- _^^ ^_ ^ ern genius appears… … Fig. 107. — Leafage of San Gallo. Fig. io8.— Relief of the Scala d Oro. the grotesque in an imaginative way. That power appearsto have belonged exclusively to the northern races. Themonster- of the Renaissance, like his Roman ancestor, has noorganic life, no suggestion ofreality, and therefore no…
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