Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers (1907)
Singleton, Esther, 1865-1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead · leaf 40
of Venetian painting link themselves tothe last, stiff, half-barbaric splendours of Byzantine decora-tion and are but the introduction into the crust of marbleand gold on the walls of the Duomo of Murano, or of SaintMarks, of a little more of human expression. Andthroughout the course of its later… … THE CONCERT 21 ious mysticism, philosophical theories, it had no Giotto, noAngelico, no Botticelli. Exempt from the stress of thoughtor sentiment, which taxed so severely the resources of thegenerations of Florentine artists, those earlier Venetianpainters, down to Carpaccio and the Bellini, seem…
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