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Essays in the study of Sienese painting (1918)

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · New York : F. F. Sherman · leaf 28

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h the immobilegravity of the Virgin, it anticipates the ecstatic andswift style of a romantic painter of two whole genera-tions later, Lorenzo Monaco. Apart, however, from any question of originality,this work for its qualities of composition, drawing,modelling and technique, deserves a place with… … 1mG. 2. Duccio : Nativity Berlin A process of elimination so rapid as to be almost asunconscious as the spokes of a swiftly turning wheel areindistinguishable, brings us in an instant to Siena as theschool, and the Fourteenth century as the period, towhich this work belongs. It takes scarcely…

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