A History of Painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence And Siena : From the Second to the Sixteenth Century
The book A History of Painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence And Siena : From the Second to the Sixteenth Century was written by author Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Here you can read free online of A History of Painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence And Siena : From the Second to the Sixteenth Century book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is A History of Painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence And Siena : From the Second to the Sixteenth Century a good or bad book?
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390, and F. Benbsetio Sfila, Vn Monumento di ancia m NapoU, Naples, 1901, p. 95. P. Benedetto Spila pleads that the attacks n P. Borrionuovo are exaggerated. * " These buildings are now used as the printing-office of the Corriere di Na^oli. ^ The heads of the group of apostles on the right are almost obliterated. * The blues, being painted in tempera, have been altered by time. The verde tones in the dresses have become dark, especially in the figure of the apostle holding the fishes, and in th...e green mantle of the female taking the bread from St. Peter. When it is stated that this fresco, when first observed, was concealed by chairs and 94 GIOTTO AT NAPLES [ch. regularity — the eye is correct in form, the face open. There is not a single example in Naples that is more in the character and spirit of Giotto than this. It is either the work of the great Tuscan himself or that of a disciple painting imder his super- intendence, with Giotto's composition and design before him. The most careful search will not enable us to discover any frescoes of Giotto in the present monastery of Santa Chiara; and, with the exception of feeble productions assigned to Simone Napoletano, there is not even a Giottesque picture there.
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