Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 44
ad in simple sweeping draperies,so that his long procession of virgins and martyrsmoved in measured harmonies like the epheboi andcanephorge of the Parthenon. The grand white-robed angels, the brown-locked, beardless Christ ofthe apse, were calm and stately ; line and mass werestill noble; beauty… … RAVENNA But it was only a tradition, not a living reality.Tradition taught the artist a certain grandeur ofcomposition, a conventional position of head andhands, a good treatment of the general lines of thedrapery, but it could do no more for him. Therewas no body under the drapery, no muscles to…
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