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 398
number of personages and their attitudes, theepisodes in the middle distance, and, finally, fixed all thedetails, and even accompanied her orders by a sketch, sothat the painter could not possibly mistake the meaning ofher instructions; and if, embarrassed by so many restric-tions, he asked for a… … PARNASSUS 307 her letters that Peruginos picture, The Combat of Love andChastity did not please her. This was not the case with the two paintings by Man-tegna, one representing the Combat of the rirtues with therices; the other, Parnassus. The first is addressed to thephilosophers, the second to…
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