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Florence (1901)

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 · Boston : L. C. Page · leaf 51

An illustration from Florence, 1901, leaf 51
p the increasing nudity of the infant. Number 80, of the school of Ghirlandajo, isa good hard Madonna and saints. You willrecognise St. Blaise with his wool-carder, St.Anthony of Padua, St. Benedict, and St. AntonyAbbot. Bishop Blaise is the patron of thewool-trade, one of the staple businesses… … The Long Corridor of the Uffizi. 29 the precursor of Michael Angelo. Art for artssake is his theory. The shepherds in the back-ground are there only because Luca likes topaint them. Numbers 81 and 83 show Piero di Cosimoin two very different moods. The Andromedais most characteristic. Piero…

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