. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. Virgin in red robeand blue mantle, her head hooded by a white linen veil. Sheholds in her arms the Child Christ, whose head, with a profusionof curls, is thrown back as though in contemplation. His righthand is raised in the act of benediction. Both Mother and Childare haloed. Colored naturalistically and placed in a tondoframe of glazed terra-cotta and of the della liobbia school ofthe fifteent
. De luxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art, belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy;. Virgin in red robeand blue mantle, her head hooded by a white linen veil. Sheholds in her arms the Child Christ, whose head, with a profusionof curls, is thrown back as though in contemplation. His righthand is raised in the act of benediction. Both Mother and Childare haloed. Colored naturalistically and placed in a tondoframe of glazed terra-cotta and of the della liobbia school ofthe fifteenth century. The glazed terra-cotta frame, of theperiod of Andrea della Robbia, consists of a wreath of fruitsand leaves, in their natural colors, with an inner border, in egg and dart ornament and an outside border of imbricatedpatterning. Heujht of fujure. .57 niehes; <] id meter of frame, 54 iiiehex. This bas-rcliof is so iiiucli larger tlian tliu marble it closely re-sembles, of the Tornabuioni inonuinent in Sta. Maria Novella, thatSignor Bardini deeiiis it to be a study by the artist for the marblewliich exigencies of arrhitictural space forced him to make smaller. (lUiistrateil).
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