Twelve great paintings; personal interpretations (1913)
Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931 · New York, Chicago [etc.] The Prang company · leaf 41
th consummate skill.They spring upward like the lines of somegraceful lily, from a point beneath the feet ofthe saint, now in almost symmetrical pairs,outlining the hips and the shoulders, now inplayful reversed curves, tangent to these orcrossing them at the most agreeable angles.Strong verticals… … A tracing of the main lines of com-position in Palma VecchiosSaint Barbara [28] could not have been produced by Raphael himself. An improvementof this arrangement is inconceivable. But the best reproduction in black and white conveys nothing ofthe wondrous color of the original. Barbaras life was a…
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