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Italian cities (1903)

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 58

An illustration from Italian cities, 1903, leaf 58
t thorax, and inaddition compelled him to wear a helmet with atermination like a chandelier. The artist has nottroubled himself to compose his figures, but hassimply stood them up side by side, and he is right.Nothing is more decorative than formal pattern,and Pietros wall-pieces with their depth… … PERUGIA ration, more congenial as subjects to Perugino, arenot quite as decorative as the Virtues thoughthey are very nearly so, since in the first, the artisthas found his upward-tending lines in his architec-ture, in the second in his mandorla. The fresco ofthe Sibyls and Prophets has always…

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