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Guide to Siena : history and art (1905)

Heywood, W. (William), 1857-1919, Olcott, Lucy M · Siena : E. Torrini · leaf 204

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jointed and comparatively flat—longafter his contemporaries had abandoned mereStory-telling and dreamy Sentiment, and wereseeking to portray the new and sterner Natural-istic ideals of the Renaissance. But despitethese evident defects—if, after all, we mayterm them such—the pictures which the… … painters produced are none the less great anddelightful. It is only for those who seek solelythe more material values of modelling and chiaro-scuro that they have no charm. The Sieneseartists possessed a love of colour equalled onlyby that of the painters of Venice, and a peculiarfeeling for line…

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