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Italian cities (1903)

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 204

An illustration from Italian cities, 1903, leaf 204
sum; emphasizing the lines of a youths armor,breastplate and girdle, greaves and collar, with rowsof gilded disks, relieved slightly, but quite highlyenough to catcli the light, and backing his figureswith a reticulated pattern again in relief of gold. The painter of to-day shrugs his shoulders in… … SIENA years ago, the violence in contrast in certain partsmust have been shocking, but now the ultramarinehas bloomed in spots of green and purple, the gold isbright here, tarnished there ; disintegration of surfacehas helped rather than hindered, and as a result isseen the richest fresco-color in…

Art -- Italy · Cities and towns -- Italy · Italy -- Description and travel

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