The Tuscan & Venetian artists, their thought & work (1904)
Rea, Hope 1860- · London, J. M. Dent · leaf 203
ofpictures illustrating stories, which we have found to beso characteristic of the period, were largely due to thedemands of the Brothers Minor, who viewed such worksas valuable means of edification, bringing essential doctrineand comfortable encouragement to the unlearned whomight read the fresco,… … :i /M^M-^(^ i- I 1:1 ill I I I I A linari. Madonna of the Architects.—Andrea della Robbia. A GREAT ARTISTS EXPERIMENT 139 of the learned Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella;—^butsomething else was needed by the suffering and the poorto whom the followers of Francis were sent. Hence thestories. The…
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