Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 120
colour. Note, forinstance, how white and round the right arm emergesfrom the impenetrable blackness. But let us hearwhat Messer Giorgio Vasari has to say touchingthis masterpiece : There is in our portfolio, on a half sheet royal, adrawing by Andrea of a Judith putting in the bag ofa negress slave… … Braun, Clcncnt d- Co. photo.\ {Uffizl, Flo> JUDITH WITH THE HEAD OF HOLOFERNES ANDREA MANTEGNA 57 hairs spun out, and such other refinements, as if theyhad been done most daintily with a brush. Where-fore this sheet may be regarded as a painting ratherthan as a drawing.^ Ill With the sepia…
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