The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 160
o extremes, mysticsuavity and melancholy power. It isa perfect reflection of an agitatedsociety, fevered by luxury and enjoy-ment, and afire with civil discords, asociety in which the fanatical Christian-ity of a Savonarola jostled the almostpagan Humanism of the MediceanCourt. Classic art gave it… … FIG. 248.—THE EDUCATION OF PAN.LUCA SIGNOREl.I.I. (Museum, Berlin.)(Photo, by Hiiufilricn.i;!.) it was neither Greek nor Roman, be-cause it was still profoundly religious,alternately illumined and obscured by(he radiant or terrible visions of an-other world. Florentine sculpture began withLorenzo…
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