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A Florentine picture-chronicle; being a series of ninety-nine drawings representing scenes and personages of ancient history, sacred and profane (1898)

Finiguerra, Maso, 1426-1464, Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 · London, B. Quaritch · leaf 59

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acteristic example of Tuscan Early Renaissance design. Two features find their exact counterpart in the group of fifteenth-century engravings discussed above (Introd. pp. 34-40) ; viz., the appearance of the Almighty accepting the sacrifice of Abel — compare the identical appearance in the… … FIG. 42. — PEDESTAL OF THE MAKZOCCO OR LION OF FLORENCE. School of Donatello.

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