The painters of Florence from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century (1915)
Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, d. 1924 · New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.;[etc., etc.] · leaf 106
dhim, in the Baptism of Christ, and the man withhis back turned towards us in the act of pullingoff his shirt, are plainly adapted from Masacciosfamous fresco in the Carmine, and are both excel-lently drawn; the figure of Christ, again, standing inthe stream of Jordan, is not without a… … 1447] BAPTISTERY FRESCOES 83 told with a naive sincerity, mingled with a new senseof actuality, which are very characteristic of Masolino.Herod and his guests are seated at table, under aclassical loggia, decorated with a frieze of cherubsbearing garlands, such as Jacopo della Quercia hadcarved on…
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