Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 101
ls of girls,then these beautiful beings of ^lelozzos are angels. There isnothing common about them, yet they are not sentimentallyangelic. This one with her brown blunt wings, like an owl,just as if painted from nature, is very human and particularlyattractive in that attitude of pleased… … Fig, 51.—Melozzo di Forli. Flaying Angel.Sacristy of St. Peters, Rome. PEKC(1IX(J 73 natuiiilly toward the earth, is in itseh enough to raise Melozz(]to a place beside the greatest artist of his days. That liisappointment as painter to the pope brought him special honoris shown in the fact that he…
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