A new history of painting in Italy, from the second to the sixteenth century (1864)
Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896, Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 · London, J. Murray · leaf 535
ask for ideal form, because the age was essentially oneof portraiture, we concede to Ghirlandaio, in such a groupas this, the art of rendering the human shape and fea-tures with incomparable nobleness, without an alloy of 1 See antea a fresco assigned I 3 The distance shows the Ponteto Giottino. a… … Chap. XX. THE SASSETTI CHAPEL. 475 coarseness or vulgarity. The truth in its most pleasingappearance and rendered with great perfection of reliefby light and shade is attained so far in a measure su-perior to that of Masaccio. It is unnecessary to enter into details of the arrangementor grouping in…
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