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The cicerone; an art guide to painting in Italy, for the use of travellers and students; (1908)

Burckhardt, Jacob, 1818-1897, Clough, Blanche Smith · London, T. W. Laurie · leaf 228

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side chil- Idren, in the distance an old man.)The other, in the Borghese Palace jat Rome: Amor sacro ed Amorprofano, that is, Love and Pru-dery [the old Italian title, pro-bably a wrong one. Bidolfi (1646)calls it, Due donne vicino ad unfonte, entro a cui si specchia unfanciullo], a subject which… … Q £f Vecellio, Schiavone, Bonifazio. 197 gloves; the plucked rose; on thesarcophagus of the stream, the bas-relief of a Cupid wakened out ofsleep by Genii with blows fromtheir whips ; the rabbits ; the pairof lovers in the distance. Bothpictures, especially the former, ex-ercise the dreamy charm…

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