Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 197
erfection of devotionalexpression. It was to the former class that Benozzo Gozzoli be-longed, pupil though he was of Fra Angelico. Althoughhis special quality may be partly discerned in the altar-piecethat hangs above his masters predella, in the strongly markedcharacter of the saints, and perhaps… … THE RAPE OF HELEN 139 The Rape of Helen (No. 591), in which he has depictedwith great liveliness and gusto a scene from a classicallegend. Possibly, to Fra Angelico, who regarded paintingonly as a means of edification, its employment on sucha subject may have seemed little less than sacrilege,…
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