. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. ple, rose and green, andother delicate combinations, and their sweet and serious facesare turned towards each other in the act of conversation. Themen, too, seem absorbed in talking, but at neither table doeslaughter distort the features of the guests nor unseemly frivol-ity mar the reposeful dignity of their attitudes or conversation is not the sole joy of the feast; the fringedwhite cloth is strewn with fruits and sweetmeats, which Nasta-gio offers to the bride in a shallow, blue, gold-rimmed bowl offine faience, and which the guests
. Art and criticism : monographs and studies. ple, rose and green, andother delicate combinations, and their sweet and serious facesare turned towards each other in the act of conversation. Themen, too, seem absorbed in talking, but at neither table doeslaughter distort the features of the guests nor unseemly frivol-ity mar the reposeful dignity of their attitudes or conversation is not the sole joy of the feast; the fringedwhite cloth is strewn with fruits and sweetmeats, which Nasta-gio offers to the bride in a shallow, blue, gold-rimmed bowl offine faience, and which the guests eat with knives and forks;to the left and right, too, the servitors, slender and elegantyouths, dressed in bright-colored costumes, advance with rhyth-mic tread and gracefully undulating movements of the body,each one holding aloft a dish wound round with a long scarf-like napkin that streams over his shoulder and floats in thebreeze. How charming and precious in every detail is thisrepresentation of a Florentine feast! How minutely refined. THE BLESSED DAMOZEL.
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