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Italian cities (1903)

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 196

An illustration from Italian cities, 1903, leaf 196
e drawing, and to theisolation of the painted personages who, each oneof them, seems to be leading a separate existenceof his own, and has little or no relation to the otherfigures in the same composition. And not only the figures, but the groups also, areisolated from each other, making a sort of… … SIENA required: stately subjects, — royal marriages, pro-cessions, councils. Many masters of the fifteenthcentury cannot avoid confusion in their large com-positions, but their masses, if awkwardly composed,usually continue to be masses. Pinturicchios groupsbreak up into little knots of people who…

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