The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 157
FIG. 239.—ALLEGORY OF SPRING.BOTTICELLI. (Academy, Florence.) a master of line in his rare pictures(Figs. 235, 237) ; he was, moreover,the first of the Florentines to under-stand landscape, and the part playedtherein not only by forms, but by lightand air. We must not, however. … FIG. 240.—MADON-NA AND ANGELS.BOTTICELLI. Ambrosiana, Milan.(Photo, by Alinari.) forget that twenty years before thebirth of Verrocchio, the Van Eycks had painted exquisite land-scapes in Flanders. Italianart, as Courajod has wellsaid, was the favoured child,but not the eldest son of…
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