Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 396
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 Peruglnos 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 Virtues with theVices; the other, Parnassus, The first is addressed to thephilosophers, the second to…
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