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A history of painting in north Italy : Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Ferrara, Milan, Friuli, Brescia, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century : drawn up from fresh materials after recent researches in the archives of Italy, and from personal inspection of the works of art scattered throughout Europe (1871)

Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896, Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 · London : J. Murray · leaf 380

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his monochrome on adark ground, contrasting with thedark green festoons and playingangels is one peculiarly charac- teristic of Mantegna. Purely imi-tative of the antique is the medal-lion of a horse, two nudes, anda breastplate in the wall of theright hand fresco. The blues inthe dress of Sl James… … ST. JAMES ON THE ROAD TO MARTYRDOM ; a wall-painting, by Andrea Mantegna,in the Chapel of the Erernicani at Padua f Chap. XII. ANDREA MANTEGNA. 329 with complacency on the studies of the archeologist andperspective draughtsman, he does so now with an obtrusivezeal. He considers the human form as a…

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