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A handbook of pictorial art (1875)

Tyrwhitt, R. St. John (Richard St. John), 1827-1895, Macdonald, A. (Alexander), 1839-1921 · Oxford, The Clarendon press · leaf 70

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al arrangement of the figure, and the value of series in the placing of the dots. From ill is dead barbarism we pass to living barbarism—to work done byhands quite as rude, if not ruder, and by minds as uninformed: and yet work Fig. I. Byzantine Lion ;—utterly unprogressive Art, though quaint.Fig.… … EVE AND THE SERPENT. 51 which in every line of it is prophetic of power, and has in it the sure dawn of day.You have often heard it said that Giotto was the founder of Art in Italy. He wasnot: neither he, nor Giunto Pisano, nor Niccolo Pisano. They all laid stronghands to the work, and brought it…

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