The study and criticism of Italian art. Second series (1920)
Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · London, Bell · leaf 116
e. Much of this fire evaporated with attention to linefor its own sake, as we shall readily perceive incomparing this cartoon with the finished engraving.The engraving is not so plastic, the atmosphericeffect has disappeared, and, with it, the pictorialcharm. What the line has gained in continuity,… … ANDREA MANTEGNA 55 air electric. How tame all this has grown in theengraving! Yet one other sketch in the simple technique ofsepia demands attention. It is a drawing lackingnone of the qualities which make the cartoon for the Combat delightful, and at the same time possess-ing attractiveness and…
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