Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 188
on these walls— smart youths in tights and slashes, bright-robedscholars, ecclesiastics caped in ermine, ladies withlong braids bound in nets of silk, crowded to seethemselves embalmed in tempera for curious after-centuries to gaze upon. The first four panels are the most charming; theyare a little… … SIENA young faces, in the strange piled-up backgrounds,and what variety and elegance in the costumes. The subject is a moral tale of the Renaissance:how a good little boy, by minding his book andobeying his pastors and masters, became a greatscholar, a cardinal, and finally a pope. And to thosewho…
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