Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 425
kers, occupied morewith moral ideas than with the beauty of form. The first in Florence to be enthralled by the charm ofbeautiful eyes was the poor Filippo Lippi. It was he whocreated that new form of art which was to continue withBotticelli, his pupil, and which attained its perfection underthe… … SPRING 315 What Botticelli was, Spring will tell us ; and this workis so significant, its essence expresses the thought of themaster so clearly that it has preserved all its charm for us,although its particular meaning is not known to us. Wecall it Spring, but if one of the figures in the picture…
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