Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 280
dimen-sion. A gourd is suspended from the ceiling andwe feel that the surface of the fruit is smooth. Theaccessories, in a word, play a very interesting opticalrole, perhaps too interesting. But Durer failed, if not in knowledge of aerialperspective, at least in marking well the gradation… … THE NATIVITY. BY ALBERT DURER. ENGRA VING. 255 people might breathe in them. The plate uponwhich, following a middle-age fable, he has engravedthe Poet Virgil suspended in a Basket, by a cour-tesan, presents in the foreground, figures that seemto be within reach of the hand, while in the…
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