Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959 · New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co. · leaf 320
m-pression of hieraticdignity. The severityis evidently inten-tional ; it is marked especially by the rigidity of the neck, by the deep lines of theface, and by the stiffness of the right arm. The earliest record that we have of this work is in the lastquarter of the fifteenth century, and this… … Fig. 119. •Bronze statue of S. Peter, in the Vatican.Probably sisth century. 292 PICTOniAL A IIT of the head it was changed into an image of S. Peter, by Leothe Great, about tin• middle of the fifth century. This view isno longer held; on grounds of style it is impossible; that itwas originally a…
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