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 422
aracterized. Their heads are, indeed, more or lesstypical, but they are individual also. They are like por-traits idealized, as we say, in conformity with the tradi-tions of the particular saints. The features and gesturesof some of them, we may assert with confidence (and thiswe could not do with… … THE ANNUNCIATION 325 vent which he entered at an early age. They have alldifferent modes of expressing their attention to the goldenwords which fall from the mouth of the Baptist. S. Cosmolooks up, S. Damian looks down, the eyes of S. Francis arefixed on S. John, those of S. Lawrence on the ground,…
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