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Renaissance and modern art (1908)

Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 145

An illustration from Renaissance and modern art, 1908, leaf 145
of the king, Francis I., whose personal friendship heenjoyed. He died at Amboise in 1519. In the Last Supper, Italian painting reached itsclimax. Although much damaged by flaking off, by re-painting of the faces, and other injuries (a door, forinstance, was broken through the wall beneath),… … Leonardo da Vinci. 137 stance, to its dimensions; the individual figures beingnearly double life-size. The fine harmony of color, dra-matic power, and psychologic insight into characterdisplayed by varied gesture and expression, the way inwhich the action cumulates toward the figure of theSavior,…

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