Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 186
hatis its precise meaning ? Vasari expressly says that theMadonna is between St. Jerome, the angel Raphael andTobit: Dentro vi e la Nostra Donna^ San Girolamo vestitoda cardlnale^ ed uno Angela Rajffaello chaccompagna Tobia.This being admitted, people asked how the young captiveof Nineveh was thus… … 1 III. \ IIH.I S c.l I III. I ISH. THE VIRGIN OF THE FISH 135 Raphael had merely obeyed a pictorial fantasy ; whilstothers, seeking a moral meaning in so beautiful a workand finding none in V^asaris description, have denouncedthis description as false and have gone to some pains tosubstitute a…
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