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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...only of other material--flowers, flames, draperies--that yield themselves readily to such purpose, but especially of the human body, he says, with a felicitous phraseology which must be followed in his book to be under-paintedi8 a picture of the Annunciation in one of their chapels, and in the church of San Pietro he executed one for. Matteo Palmieri, with a very large number of figures.i9 The subject of this work, which is near the side-door, is the Assumption of Our Lady, and the zones or circles of heaven are there painted in their order. The Patriarchs, stood in its full development, that Botticelli translates "tactile values" into "pure values of movement," and becomes unrivalled in the art of "lineal decoration." In this appreciation of Botticelli's intense preoccupation with the decorative suggestion of movement, Mr. Berenson's essay is a real contribution to the critical literature of art. Vernon Lee (Miss Paget) has said picturesquely and forcefully in her Fancies and Studies in the Renaissance that Botticelli "uses the human form as so much pattern element" in "his strange arabesque, half-intellectual, half-physical." Among works not mentioned by Vasari and credited to Botticelli in Mr. Berenson's catalogue are three in Bergamo, Giuliano de' Medici, Head of Christ, Story of Virginia; Boston, collection of Mrs. Gardner, Death of Lucretia; Dresden, Life of San Zanobi; London, a portrait of a man, Mars and Venus, two pictures of the Adoration of the Magi, scenes from the Life of San Zanobi, in the Mond Collection; in Milan, Poldi-Pezzoli Collection, Madonna, Ambrosiana, Madonna with Angels; in St. Petersburg, an Adoration of the Magi. " Morelli says this Annunciation in the I'-ll/i is painted by a pupil of Botticelli from his master's...Hide synopsis
Description:Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Published 1923. Volume II of a...Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall Published 1923. Volume II of a four-volume set. Red cloth lettered in gilt, 407 pages. Some light rubbing to the corners and spine ends, slight spine fading, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages free from chips, tears or markings, name and date on front free endpaper. A clean and sound copy.
Description:Very good. No dust jacket. 336 p. CG/Price sticker and easily...Very good. No dust jacket. 336 p. CG/Price sticker and easily erasable pencil pricing on fep. Insect holes on a few pgs near spine. Book is otherwise in good plus shape for its age.
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