GiottoScribner and Welford, 1895 - 126 pages |
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action Andrea Pisano angels arches architecture Arena Chapel artist Assisi attributed to Giotto authorship Bargello BAS-RELIEF BAS-RELIEF DESIGNED beauty beneath building Byzantine Byzantine Architecture Campanile ceiling centre century Chapel at Padua choir Christ Christian Church of Assisi Cimabue colour composition Crowe and Cavalcaselle Dante decoration DESIGNED BY GIOTTO difference drapery Enrico Scrovegni executed by Giotto feeling figures Florence Francis frescoes Gaddi genius Giottesque Giotto Giunta Grecian Greek hand imitation influence Italian Italy Joachim later less light look Lower Church Madonna Madonna Enthroned manner marble master mosaic nature Navicella Niccola Pisano noticed ornamented Padua painted painter perhaps Peruzzi Pisa Pisano Pope Boniface VIII portion portrait Poverty present pupils representing restoration Rome row of frescoes Ruskin saints Santa Croce scene Scrovegni Chapel sculpture seems side Spoleto Cathedral stands story style Temple tints tion tower transept Upper Church Vasari Vespignano Virgin visit Assisi walls whole
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Page 43 - These temples grew as grows the grass : Art might obey, but not surpass ; The passive master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned, And the same power that
Page 99 - The characteristics of Power and Beauty occur more or less in different buildings, some in one and some in another ; but all together, and all in their highest possible relative degrees, they exist, as far as I know, only in one building in the world, the Campanile of
Page 21 - Pisan sea. The traveller passes the Fiesolan ridge, and all is changed. The country is on a sudden lonely. Here and there indeed are seen the scattered houses of a farm grouped gracefully upon the hill-sides ; here and there a fragment of tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens nor flowers, nor glittering palace
Page 20 - breadth of shade, studded with walls of gleaming silver; and shining at intervals through their framework of rich leaf and rubied flower, the far-away bends of the Arno beneath its slopes of olive, and the purple peaks of the Carrara mountains tossing themselves against the western distance, where the streaks of motionless clouds
Page 20 - in the ridge of Fiesole, they pass continually beneath the walls of villas bright in perfect luxury, and beside cypress hedges inclosing fair terraced gardens, where the masses of oleander and magnolia, motionless as leaves in a picture, inlay alternately upon the blue sky their branching lightness of pale rose
Page 21 - not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields and tended pastures ; not rich nor lovely, but sunburnt and sorrowful, becoming wilder every instant as the road winds into its recesses, ascending still, until the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, dropping back from the central
Page 59 - a yearning after all things truthful, lovely, and of good report, in the productions of this early time which invest them with a charm peculiar in its kind, and which few even of the most perfect works of the maturer era can boast of ; and hence the risk and danger