A New History of Painting in Italy From the Ii to the Xvi Century volume 1
A New History of Painting in Italy From the Ii to the Xvi Century volume 1
Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896
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Chiara at Ravenna (abandoned and close to a riding school) is covered with frescoes in which the manner of Petrus and Julianas of Rimini may be found. Christ, on a rough hewn cross in convulsive move- ment, is bewailed by angels in vehement action in the air. Four fly about in grief, three gather the blood from the wounds, one tears its dress from its breast. The Virgin and S. John are at the sides, and S. Mary Magdalen at the foot stretches out her arms to heaven. Beneath this Crucifixion is t...he Baptism of Christ, with an ugly and partly repainted nude of the Redeemer. On other walls, the Annunciation, SS. Francis, Chiara, Anthony the Abbot, and Louis ; the Adoration ; and in the ceiling, the Four Doctors of the Church, are all frescoes, whose principal figures display the defects noticed at Pomposa and S. Maria Portofuori (note the long, thick necks, protruding chins, massive hair, and heads without cranium), and repeated in other parts of Italy in pictures and frescoes assigned to Simone (No.
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