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Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 279
ehind the parlour door, and you want itplastered and painted over ; — and he does you a master-piece which the world will peep behind your door to lookat for ever. I have no time to tell you why this is so; nor do Iknow why, altogether, but so it is. Giotto, then, is sent for, to paint this high… … ST- FRANCIS BEFORE THE SOLDAN 203 Now you must observe that painting a Gothic chapelrightly is just the same thing as painting a Greek vaserightly. The chapel is merely the vase turned upside-down, and outside-in. The principles of decoration areexactly the same. Your decoration is to be…
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