Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 63
he mill is issuing a man witha sack of flour on his shoulders, which he willset upon the back of the donkey that waits pa-tiently before the door, while a little way alongthe road stands a dog, all alert and impatientto start. These incidents illustrate Memlings figures are chosen with the first… … THE VIRGIN ENTHRONED. BY BOTTICELLI. fondness for detail, and his delight in the repre-sentation of facts as facts. By comparison, Botticelli is a painter, not offacts, but of ideas, and his pictures are not somuch a representation of certain objects as apattern of forms. Nor is his coloring rich…
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