The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 154
in 1849, and further developed byCourajod in 1890. 134 THE RENAISSANCE AT SIENA AND FLORENCE (Fig. 226). He was the first to translateinto true pictures, that is to say, expres-sive groupings of figures, the paintedchronicles of the Middle Ages, whichpious souls had spelt out for centuriesas a kind… … FIG. 232.—SS. PETER AND JOHN CI\1NG ALMS.MASACCIO. (Church of the Carmine, Florence.) the Florentines in power, surpassedthem perhaps in passion, poetry, andtenderness. A little Sienese pictureof the highest quality is a feast for theeyes; but works of the first rank arerare in this school, which…
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