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Essays in the study of Sienese painting (1918)

Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · New York : F. F. Sherman · leaf 57

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. Gimignano, and at S.Croce the surface is so spoilt that it scarcely resemblesthe original state. As design, however, the centralpanel containing the Madonna and Child in the lastmentioned work is so close to the one in the Foglianotriptych that it would be insulting the students intelli-gence to… … the cut of the hair which we find again on the head ofthe saint on our extreme left at S. Croce. This pecul-iarity, of which we may have to speak yet again, consistsof a fan-shaped shock which, starting from toward thecrown, spreads over the forehead between the wavinglocks that fall at the sides.…

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