Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 236
al that took Siena by storm. Natur-ally this sweetness often degenerates into insipid-ity or becomes cloying; mere loveliness cannotatone for the lack of nobility any more thanfacility and fertility of invention can replace highthought and strenuous endeavor; but, after all,to analyze the faults of… … SIENA To follow the triumphant progress of the Re-naissance which entered Siena so brilliantly withPinturicchio and Bazzi, would be a pleasant task;to retrace, step after step, their wanderings aboutthe town from their homes in the Via dei Maestri,over the Contrada Pictorum to the churcheswhere…
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