Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 121
shocksand tremors; we think it braces us to shudder, and wethink that Art is a kind of emotional pill; we measure itquantitatively, and say that we know what we like.And doubtless there is something piquant in the quiveringproduced, for example, by the sight of white innocencefluttering helpless in… … Judith. Botticelli JUDITH 8l Academy. It was a like appreciation of the certain effectof vivid contrasts as powerful didactic agents (coupled with,or drowning, a something purer and more devout) whichhad inspired those most beautiful and distinctive of all thesymbols of Catholicism, the Adoration…
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