 | Charles Callahan Perkins - 1864 - 432 pages
...Florentine Certosa, which lies in the middle of the pavement of a chapel of that 254 TUSCAN SCULPTORS. convent; it is very carefully modelled, the flesh...San Michele, which is far 'less Group at worthy of a Coryciana than Andrea's group at Rome of the Or San Miche1e, same subject; and the monument of Bishop... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 516 pages
...of Cortona, and Superior of this convent (ob. 1545), by Francesco de San Gallo, son of Giuliano. " It is very carefully modelled ; the flesh parts are...before the altar, and produces a striking effect. " —Perhins. Two and a half miles further, by a long but easy ascent, beautifully situated amid the... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1884 - 250 pages
...of Cortona, and Superior of this convent (ob. 1545), by Francesco de San Gallo, son of Giuliano. ' It is very carefully modelled ; the flesh parts are...before the altar, and produces a striking effect. ' — Perkins. important places of pilgrimage in Tuscany. The church was built in 1593 by Francesco... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 424 pages
...of Cortona, and Superior of this convent (ob. 1545), by Francesco de San Gallo, son of Giuliano. ' It is very carefully modelled ; the flesh parts are...before the altar, and produces a striking effect.' • — Perkins. Two and a half miles further, by a long but easy ascent, beautifully situated amid... | |
 | Lilian Whiting - 1905 - 388 pages
...striking. Of the recumbent figure of the Bishop of Cortona, also in this crypt, Mr. Perkins says : — " It is very carefully modelled: the flesh parts are...before the altar, and produces a striking effect." 185 Passing on to the foot of Bellosguardo, one comes to the ancient Church of San Francesco di Paola,... | |
 | LILIAN WHITING - 1905 - 394 pages
...striking. Of the recumbent figure of the Bishop of Cortona, also in this crypt, Mr. Perkins says : — " It is very carefully modelled: the flesh parts are...before the altar, and produces a striking effect." 185 Passing on to the foot of Bellosguardo, one comes to the ancient Church of San Francesco di Paola,... | |
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It is very carefully modelled ; the flesh parts are well treated, and the drapery is disposed in natural folds. It has almost the effect of a corpse laid out for burial before the altar, and produces a striking effect. 