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Italian cities (1902)

Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, "Mrs. E. H. Blashfield." · New York, C. Scribners's sons · leaf 60

An illustration from Italian cities, 1902, leaf 60
Eavenna, as, guardedby Frankish soldiers, wain after wain laden withthe spoils of Theodorics palace, the white oxenof Emilia straining at the yoke, creaked away to-ward Ingelheim and Aix-la-Chapelle. Franks andeven Lombards were, however, still in the futurewhen the Greek workmen on their… … RAVENNA its towers and ships, shaping the Magi and addingone virgin after another till the whole tale oftwenty-two stood processional and complete, facingthe saints and patriarchs of the other side. He wasa real artist, this Greek, for he was of a real artepoch. When he worked upon the friezes,…

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