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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ay observe in the Annunciation that species of composi-tion which Giovanni da Milano followed in his picture at Prato,the Virgin shrinking with a gesture of alarm from the kneelingGabriel in an afiected attitude of grace and tremor, whilst theangel in his reverent motion, with arms crossed on his breast,displays more elegance than religious feeling. Outside the rooma maid sits on the ground and has dropped her spinning to listenthrough the partition. Endeavouring, no doubt, to distinguishthe form of the servant from the nobler one of the Virgin, Barnagives her a fuller and more developed figure, and at the same timea less strained action. The servant is therefore the more pleasingbecause the more natural of the two, the round outline of thehead being improved by a pretty turn of the hair in the Sienesefashion. The space in the lunette is at the same time welldistributed, and the draperies are broad in fold after the fashionof Simone. It is a subject worthy of being remarked because in
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CRUCIFIXIONBy Berna From a fresco in the Collegiata, San Gimignano III.—To face page 82

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