Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Detroit, Mich., Published for the Bay View Reading Club by the Macmillan Company, New York · leaf 187
itians Assumption (Fig. 95), thegreat dignity and reserve are to be noted and compared with seventeenth cen-tury types. In thesame sense the reserveand dignity of theSistine Madonnaby Raphael may becompared with theImmaculate Concep-tions. All these factspoint to the larger,more general one,… … Fig. 107.—The Annunciation.Louvre. Sassoferrato. the sixteenth century Italian art. painfully tragic; common sense avoids the ecstatic and the sentimental, or handles it with great reserve. The landscapes, mythologic scenes, and genre pic-tures (realistic subjects) are the most successful of…
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