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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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THE UPPER CHURCH OF ASSISI 177 the altarpiece of the Academy of Arts at Florence, whilst, in com-parison with the mosaic of the apsis in the Duomo of Pisa, it dis-played a slighter and feebler character. The angels in the westernside of the northern transept likewise revealed the somewhat angularand heavy style of Cimabue in the altarpiece just cited ; and thecontinuation of the same manner appeared with little alterationin the central ceiling of the transept. Here the space was dividedinto the usual diagonals, whose ornament, issuing from vases andenlivened with quaint conceits, recalls the late Roman style ofJacopo Torriti. The Evangelists, with their symbols, sit enthroned in stately chairs,inspired to the task of composing the Gospels by angels, flying downfrom heaven to lay their hands upon their heads. Deprived by timeof their colour, these figures, of slight frames and weighty heads, betrayin their outhnes the hand of the painter of the northern transept,whilst the angels, with

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