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From: Ada Nichols
Subject: [Bug-gne] untie heal
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:09:48 -0500

He had no tenderness nor any winning charm.
The doing so would have destroyed unity,symmetry, repose. Novella, Palazzo Vecchio, altar-pieces Uffizi and Acad. Giovanni e Paolo, Frari, Venice; Luigi Vivarini, Madonna Berlin Gal.
He came the nearestto the sublime of any painter in history through the sole attribute ofpower.
Popery, Paganism,Despotism, all the convulsions of Renaissance life threatened butharmed her not.
His late work showed the influence of the Bellinis.
It is inPerugino that we find the old religious feeling.
He was notan imitator of facts but a creator of forms and ideas. Croce Fano; Perugino, frescos Sistine Rome, Crucifixion S. The most daring man of his time, hewas a master in anatomy, composition, motion.
The doing so would have destroyed unity,symmetry, repose. His color washot and coarse, his lights lurid, his shadows brick red. It was never too sensuous andluxurious, but rather exact and intellectual. Religion, though the chief subject, was notthe chief spirit of Venetian art.
He was among the first of his school touse that medium.
Helooked at all subjects in a calm, intellectual, artistic way. Inthe fifteenth century these schools counted for little either in menor in works. There was no dramatic fire andfury about him. His work strikes one aseccentric, and eccentricity was the strong characteristic of the man. He was influenced by other painters tosome extent. He was not a great originator,though a man of ability.
It remodelledthe philosophy of Greece, and used its literature as a mould for itsown. Agostino Gubbio; Niccolò da Foligno, altar-piece S.

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