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... never wholly lost , or on panels of seasoned wood , and the colours mixed with water thickened with white of egg or the juice of the young shoots of the fig - tree . This last method was styled by the Italians a colla or a tem- pera ...
... never wholly lost , or on panels of seasoned wood , and the colours mixed with water thickened with white of egg or the juice of the young shoots of the fig - tree . This last method was styled by the Italians a colla or a tem- pera ...
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... never merited but by the most commonplace and mechanical of painters . In the church of Santa Croce , at Florence , Giotto painted a Coronation of the Virgin ( still to be seen there in the Baroncelli Chapel ) , with choirs of angels ...
... never merited but by the most commonplace and mechanical of painters . In the church of Santa Croce , at Florence , Giotto painted a Coronation of the Virgin ( still to be seen there in the Baroncelli Chapel ) , with choirs of angels ...
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... never yet ascended or descended . This leaning to the actual and the real has been made a subject of reproach , to which we shall hereafter refer . It is said , but this does not rest on very satisfactory evidence , that Giotto also ...
... never yet ascended or descended . This leaning to the actual and the real has been made a subject of reproach , to which we shall hereafter refer . It is said , but this does not rest on very satisfactory evidence , that Giotto also ...
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... reversing the Greek pattern : long- shaped , half - shut eyes ; a long , straight nose ; and a very short chin . The hands are rather delicately , but His never correctly , drawn , and he could not 32 [ BORN 1276 . GIOTTO .
... reversing the Greek pattern : long- shaped , half - shut eyes ; a long , straight nose ; and a very short chin . The hands are rather delicately , but His never correctly , drawn , and he could not 32 [ BORN 1276 . GIOTTO .
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... never correctly , drawn , and he could not design the feet well , for which reason we generally find those of his men clothed in shoes or sandals wherever it is pos- sible , and those of his women covered with flowing drapery . The ...
... never correctly , drawn , and he could not design the feet well , for which reason we generally find those of his men clothed in shoes or sandals wherever it is pos- sible , and those of his women covered with flowing drapery . The ...
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