Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 220
st to the retiring planes, the work being on sosmall a scale, and also in view of its seal-like char-acter ; for, of course, it is the method of producingform by incision, and modelling by cutting andhollowing out, that gives the peculiar character togems and seals ; and it is in forming human… … <u H o H hi QW <U Pi HU DESIDERIO DI SETTIGNANO die and the character of the tool leading naturally in that direction. Perhaps the most delicate and beautiful kind ofsculptured or modelled relief is to be found in thework of the Florentine school of the fifteenthcentury, more especially that…
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