Bumpus, T. Francis (Thomas Francis), 1861-1916 · London, T.W. Laurie · leaf 164
ndwhich it is difficult to disassociate from that similar pensiveelement that runs through Tuscan art. For hundreds of years before the epoch to which I havealluded, painting and sculpture had remained practicallyinert. Better than any illustration of their condition is areading of a MS., written… … o< 3w 05 z HO W a UUD THE ARTS SUBSIDIARY TO ARCHITECTURE Supposing an artist is desiring of portraying, let us say,the Birth of the Blessed Virgin, he is told to paint, first,houses; then St Anne lying on a bed under a coverlet, herhead resting on a pillow. Two attendants must be intro-duced to…
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