Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (1875)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York : Hurd and Houghton · leaf 228
last was completed, it was thelargest altar-piece that had been seen, and it is said to have beenborne to the church by a rejoicing procession of Florentines, withtrumpeters, and expressions of pride and praise. In it the Virginsits in a chair held by six kneeling angels. The infant is on her… … ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. BY CIMABUE. From a Madonna picture in S. Maria Novella, Florence.14 210 CIMABUE — CIVETTA. figures of saints on gold ground. The old features are still here, butthe eye is softened by a change in the form of the iris, and by closercurving of the lids than had been…
