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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 455

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hat he discoversin the drama of the Cross. A marvelous animationpeoples his august landscapes, where the labors of thehusbandmen and scenes of war cover the serried hills 428 MEDIiEVAL ART and cut into the hollow valleys. It is a vast poem, epicand intimate, teeming with imagination, as if a… … Sano di Pietro or Sassetta. Charity, Poverty, and Humility. (Chantilly.) great efhgies, as firm and pure as the portraits of theChinese, seem graven in the wall, seem outlined andcemented with stone. Slowly and powerfully theireyes awaken and look out from the hard faces, they donot move, but are…

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