Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 436
this was so pure that theimage of it all, which he has made to live on the wallsof Assisi and of Padua, passes directly into us like aprocess of life, without our having the time to perceive THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 409 that the thing before us is neither sculpture, in theexact sense of the… … Simone Martini. Two saints, detail, fresco. Assisi.) (Lower Church, suspected. This rudimentary form is traversed by a lightning flash of the soul which instantly causes it to stand erect. In Italy he was, in himself, the incarnation of the Christianity of the people which, in that period, covered…
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