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Identifier: italiancities01blas (find matches)
Title: Italian cities
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918
Subjects: Art -- Italy Cities and towns -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ate a dower-chest, and paint a cathedral apse,and chisel a holy-water basin, while fortifying acity; he could write to a Duke of Milan, describinghis inventions for war-machines, bombs, and field-pieces ; his plans for fortifications, canals, andbuildings, adding, as an after-thought, at the endof the list, in painting also I can do what maybe done as well as any, be he who he may. He could handle a pen as well as a brush, andfill the empty mould of the sonnet with the fierymolten gold of real passion ; he could write trea-tises on art, rich in wise precepts; histories ofsculpture in which his own works were not slighted ;dissertations on domestic economy and world-famous lives of fellow-craftsmen. Using the stylelike a chisel, carving character in broad, virilestrokes, moulding colloquial Italian like wax, hecould cast in the furnace of his own fierc3 naturean unequalled full-length portrait of the man of 19G PRATO SAN NICCOLO DA TOLENTINO GIOVANNI DELLA ROBBIA ? WALL-FOUNTAIN ;q n/i
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THE FLORENTINE ARTIST the Eenaissance, in the best of modern autobiog-raphies. He could make scientific discoveries, solve math-ematical problems, embroider an altar-cloth, inventcostumes for a masque, summon the gods of Olynivpus to the magic circle of the seal ring, engravebuttons in niello, illustrate Dantes Paradise andPetrarchs Triumphs, design moulds for jelliesand confections, model statuettes in sugar paste,and make of a banquet as rich a feast for the eyeas for the palate. He could inlay a corselet, painta banner for a procession with rose-crowned, pea-cock-winged angels and gaunt patron saints, or casta huge church bell girdled with many patterningsand Gothic letters which still tell us FranciscusFiorentinus me fecit; he could paint and glazea sweet water jar, or a cool-toned pavement, or ashrme where, under heavy garlands, the cherubsclustered close like doves in the shelter of theeaves, around some sweet-faced saint. And in these myriad forms of loveliness he couldimmortal

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