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Title: A new history of painting in Italy, from the II to the XVI century;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Crowe, J. A. (Joseph Archer), 1825-1896 Cavalcaselle, G. B. (Giovanni Battista), 1820-1897 Hutton, Edward, 1875-1969
Subjects: Painting, Italian
Publisher: London, J. M. Dent New York, E. P. Dutton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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AGNOLO GADDIS STYLE 391 of Giottos laAvs and maxims, and rivalled the simplicity of thegreat regenerator of Italian art.^ Agnolo had thus depicted the Sposalizio in a more quiet andsolemn manner than his father had conceived it. He representedthe Annunciation with great dignity and tenderness.^ But herendered the Nativity with somewhat unpoetic simplicity.* Closeby, in the niche of a door to the right, is a figure of the Virgingiving suck to the Infant.^ Time and restorers have totally alteredthe character of the incidents depicted on the wall at the bottomof the central aisle. The Death and Ascension of the Virgin,the Gift of the Girdle, and the Coronation, are almost all new.Enormously damaged likcAvise are the lunette frescoes illustratingthe legend of Michele dei Dagomari. The type of the Saviour in the act of Benediction in the lunettehard by is the favourite one adopted by Agnolos contemporarySpinello Aretino, a painter who occupies a prominent place in thehistory of Florentine

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