The renaissance: its art and life; Florence (1450-1550) (1908)
Brinton, Selwyn, 1859-1940 · Paris, New York [etc.] Goupil & Co. · leaf 264
of workers were moulding the clay or colouring it to their fancy, asmay be seen in the work of Cieco da Gambasi within the little Pinaco-teca of Empoli Cathedral ; but it was Luca della Robbia who first gavethe art a quality of restraint, of purity, and of serenely imaginative beauty,which places… … KETE XI FRA GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA. 115 For Luca was himself a finished sculptor, — one of the great Florentinesculptors of his time. He had been chosen to carve upon Giottos Cam-panile those figures of Grammar, Philosophy, and Music (where Orpheusplays his lute) which still remain in place ; and his…
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