Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 97
etic aboutmany of these—the Virgin, while she nurses theInfant Christ, seems to foresee all the sorrow instore for her, and but little of the joy. The girlangels who nestle around her in so many of hispictures, have faces of exquisite beauty, but inmost of them, notwithstanding the fact that… … The Nativity.From the picture by Sandro Botticelli, in the National Gallery, London. THE RENAISSANCE 73 took place in Florence. Despite the revival oflearning, we are told by historians that the Churchwas becoming corrupt and the people morepleasure-loving and less interested in the religiouslife.…
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