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Title: Plain-towns of Italy : the cities of old Venetia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Egerton R. (Egerton Ryerson), b. 1873 Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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d.Among his canvases were a Pietd, an Adoration of theChild, — both very dark, — a Coronation of the Vir-gin, of heroic size and very impressive, a weird Christbearing the Cross, clad in a white satin robe, and aninjured group of St. Paul with four other saints. A few other schools were represented, by severalstriking works: a miniature procession on wood byMantegna, of extraordinary tinting, a wonderfulpanel of the Madonna and two infants by Francia,a damaged Madonna by the same, two of Moronissuperb portraits, a lovely angels head by TimoteoViti (?), a magnificent Adoration of the Child byLorenzo Lotto, gorgeously colored and finished, aninteresting Bearing of the Cross by the rare MarcoPalmesano da Forli, an Ecce Homo by Gian Bellini,and finally, a marvelous little work of Raphaels,representing the half-figure of Christ, showing at aglance how far he surpassed all others in lifelikemoulding, golden flesh work, and nameless grace. In the adjacent third room there were a few more
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BRESCIA. THE CROSS OF ST. HELENA. (IN THE MUSEUM OFCHRISTIAN ART.) BRESCIA LA FERREA 491 exceptional works, among a large number of averagemerit: a Christ healing a blind man, by Barbieri, asplendid triptych by Civerchio, — in which wingedputti were crowning S. Nicolo, with vivacious joy, —and one of Savoldos exquisitely beautiful composi-tions, an Adoration, in the stable at night-time, witha remarkable bluish moonlight effect seen through theopen window, silvering the distant streams and moun-tains. The fourth room proved of little account; like-wise the series of chambers on the other side, devotedto engravings, drawings, etc. That afternoon I climbed the castle hill, by the steepfootpath from Piazza Tito Speri at its southwest angle.To the right, then to the left through a tunnel underhouses, and up a long flight of steps, — I reached thefirst circling roadway of the park; straight ahead still,over graveled paths, now ascending through the youngwood, now turning, twisting, m

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