The Tuscan & Venetian artists, their thought & work (1904)
Rea, Hope 1860- · London, J. M. Dent · leaf 53
no merepainter-craftsman, but a painter-poet. And withal he was,and in this also representative of his time, no collegegraduate, nor gentleman in any technical sense whatsoever,but a genuine goldsmiths apprentice, not having even asurname of his own inherited from his father. Such abeginning gave… … The Magnificat.—Botticelli. Alinari, BUILDERS AND GOLDSMITHS 27 cat, a work of his maturer years. For this no apologiesare needed on the score of unskilled shortcomings. Onefeels before it that, for its particular style of work,it is the best that can be done. Fra Filippo, church-man and lover…
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