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Siena and her artists (1907)

Seymour, Frederick H. A · London: T. Fisher Unwin · leaf 217

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to be the final answer fromthe unyielding fortress of Sienese art to theclaims of the new humanistic creed, the Twnpossumus of an art-hierarchy; the last protest;against the revived worship of those idealswhich Neroccio deemed to be false gods. As you stand before this most spiritual con-ception,… … Photo] The Virgin and Child. By Neroccio di Landi. {No. 282 in the Belle Arti ). See p. 174. [Lombardi Frontispiece. NEROCCIO DI LANDI 175 here is a type undreamed of before. ThisMadonna awakens your sympathy as noother has yet done. And yet she possessesnone of the mere physical…

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