The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 201
,is well known; the work was ac-claimed with all the more fervourbecause its admirers thought it wasfifteen centuries old. But Michel-angelos genius had nothing in com-mon with antique art save the pre-dilection for certain types. Serenitywas unknown to him, and all traditionwas intolerable to him.… … FIG. 342. PIETA. MICHELANGELO. (St. Peters, Rome.)(Photo, by Anderson.) at Florence (1504). The David, amasterpiece of anatomy, seems to somecritics to offend against taste, but thetwo Madonnas are admirable, and
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