Pictures and their painters; the history of painting (1907)
Bryant, Lorinda Munson, 1855- · New York: John Lane Co. · leaf 57
Duccio wasa cai-eful student of the anatomy of the body is seen in thedetail work on the hand of the Madonna. Look at the modelingof that hand and notice how delicatelv he has indicated the 28 ITALIAN PAIXTIXG nails on the fingers. It hardly seems possible that the artistwho could paint one part of… … Fig. is.—Uuccio. Malunna and Chilil. Xatiitnal Gallery, London. ]:)ound down to a particular type and could only show his realgenius in special details. A man of genius and originality hecertainly was, or he could never have so stepped out of the con-ventional as he has in that Ijaby face and that…
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