Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 449
inished till nothing wasleft but a few hesitating gleams that went out in smoke.As the Italian artists could not re-create the magnificentequilibrium of soul which had covered the walls ofAssisi and Padua with those austere lines through 422 MEDIAEVAL ART which the order of the universe inscribed… … Duccio. The miraculous draught of fishes.{Opera del Duomo, Siena.) being inaccessible to them, the Dantesque cycle opensat the moment when the plague in Tuscany justifiedthe visions of the poet. In Florence, Orcagna, theman of severe imagination, the painter who showsus visages ennobled by…
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