Giotto and His Works in Padua: Being an Explanatory Notice of the Frescoes in the Arena ChapelG. Allen, 1900 - 213 pages |
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Page 101 - ... the human form with less upon the wings, until these last become a species of decorative appendage, a mere sign of an angel. But in Giotto's time an angel was a complete creature, as much believed in as a bird, and the way in which it would or might cast itself into the air and lean hither and thither on its plumes was as naturally apprehended as the manner of flight of a chough or a starling. Hence Dante's simple and most exquisite synonym for angel,
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