Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 674
e, who could nev-er have developed into a Mater Do-lorosa; the Madonna della Cintolain the Cathedral of Prato has almostan expression of defiance in the ab-rupt turn of the head, in the attitudeof the body, as well as in the admi-rable drapery {Fig. 395). How readily this bold vigor could in… … Fig. 395.—Madonna della Cintola, byGiovanni Pisano, in the Cathedral ofPrato. 638 GOTHIC SCULPTURE. striving after truth to nature and characteristic individuality. Thismay be observed in several funeral monuments. That of Pope Ben-edict (d. 1304) in S. Domenico at Perugia is of noble conception,…
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