Identifier: gri_33125001989728 (find matches)
Title: A history of painting in Italy : Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 Strong, S. Arthur (Sandford Arthur), 1863-1904 De Nicola, G Borenius, Tancred, 1885-1948 Douglas, R. Langton (Robert Langton), 1864-1951
Subjects: Painting, Italian
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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aquiline profiles,gentleness rather than grace, make them pleasing ; whilst draperiesof good lines, free from angularity, contribute by their arrange-ment about the head and frame to the pleasing efiect of the whole.Large oval heads, with hair brushed back and bound by cinctureswhich fling the locks profusely down, a thin neck, slender handsand figures, betray in Duccio a partiality for the consecrated typeof angels. Yet even these are improved by softness of featuresor tenderness of expression; and those whose heads may be seenreposing so confidently on the back of the Virgins throne arenot without charm. A new feeling was thus infused into theantique mould, producing a novel character at times, disclosing 1 Some cliarm is gone, owing to the abrasion of the colour in the flesh tints, andto some retouching in oil, not only in the inner parts but also in the outlines. For instance, in SS. Peter and Paul, and in the apostles in half-figure abovethe large panel of the Madonna and Saints.
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