The study and criticism of Italian art . ll contemporaries and townsmen, with thestark and staring, clumsy and morose images that,with rare exceptions, comprise his entire repertory ?The finest exception is the Redentore Madonnapainted about 1490. Far be it from me to decry thisimpressive and even appealing work of art. Yetapart from the attractiveness of the music-makingwinged babies, there is little there in the way ofintrinsic beauty that could not have been achievedwith a pair of compasses. Successful the compositionis, but it is really childishly rudimentary. And whatelse is there in this
The study and criticism of Italian art . ll contemporaries and townsmen, with thestark and staring, clumsy and morose images that,with rare exceptions, comprise his entire repertory ?The finest exception is the Redentore Madonnapainted about 1490. Far be it from me to decry thisimpressive and even appealing work of art. Yetapart from the attractiveness of the music-makingwinged babies, there is little there in the way ofintrinsic beauty that could not have been achievedwith a pair of compasses. Successful the compositionis, but it is really childishly rudimentary. And whatelse is there in this woodenly frontal figure ? Littleindeed that is essential art, yet this, his highestthough it be, is perhaps Alvises answer to the chal-lenge he may have read in Bellinis Frari Triptych. The St. Justine, on the other hand, not onlyhas an oval much lovelier than Alvises, but swayswith a rhythm as exquisite as it is stately. Althoughstill archaic in construction and proportion, she isfully realized in the round, and that without any ?
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