The art of the Italian renaissance; a handbook for students and travellers (1903)
Wölfflin, Heinrich, 1864-1945, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, G. P. Putnam's sons; London, W. Heinemann · leaf 279
to be seen. Michelangelowent further, and bared the arm of his Virgin up to the shoulder-joint {Madonna of the Tribuna). Although other painters do not followhim in this, yet the exposure of the junction of arm and shoulder is commonin the case of angels. Beauty came to be identified with a clear… … RecliniBg Venus (fragment), by Piero di Cosimo. of the joints. As a prominent instance of the defective knowledge oforganic structure which was pecuHar to the fifteenth century, we rnay citethe treatment of the loin-cloth in the figure of Christ or St. Sebastian. Thispiece of drapery is intolerable…
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