The Tuscan & Venetian artists, their thought & work (1904)
Rea, Hope 1860- · London, J. M. Dent · leaf 256
, and that whichgenerally marks strength and endurance, for Carpacdosidea is not that of an ascetics victory, but of normalhuman nature disciplining itself to a life of temperance,and requiring all vital force to accomplish the task.The colour having this significance, the waving, bil-lowy hair of… … oo O HCO THE COMPARATIVE TREATMENT 173 the accepted symbolism of the time that the hair is madeso prominent, it is in opposition to the horny spines ofthe loathly dragon, which in their turn were the type,also accepted, of depraved and bestialised existence.Hair, and the absence of it, according to…
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