Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 452
f the scene at our first glance. He has butthe slightest intuition of that sublime compositionwhich, with the great Florentine, is no other than a THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 425 perfect balance between the moral element and thedescriptive element. But he goes straight to his goalof relating… … Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Landscape, fresco. {Academy, Siena.) in these qualities he has scarcely a superior throughoutthe whole of Italian painting, save Giotto himself.His immediate successors, Barna, for example, make amelodramatic travesty, though an ardent and highlycolored one, of this power for…
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