Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 378
gelo achieved a triumph of boldness,lesser natures were betrayed into bizarrerie ; and this chapelof the Medici, in spite of its grandiose simplicity, proved astumbling-block to subsequent architects by encouragingthem to despise propriety and violate the laws of structure. We may assume then that… … TOMB OF L. DEMEDICI, SAN LORENZO, FLORENCE By Michelangelo MEDICI TOMBS 287 laboured both as architect and sculptor. Of the two Mediciit is not fanciful to say that the Duke of Urbino is the mostimmovable of spectral shapes eternalized in marble ; whilethe Duke of Nemours, more graceful and…
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