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Italian cities (1903)

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 52

An illustration from Italian cities, 1903, leaf 52
treasuries of Europeanart. Upon entering it the first impression is oneof homogeneousness and completeness. Nothinghas been taken away and little added since thefirst years of the sixteenth century, a time at onceof culmination and of transition. In the Sala delCambio the frame equals the picture,… … PERUGIA of the carved wood continue and relieve the warmgrays, the aniher, and the tawny reds and yellowsof the frescoes ; the pavement is in harmony below,and the vaulting above is covered with that com-bination of ilat-painted figures and scroll-workwhich is so distinctive of a good art epoch,…

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

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