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... hair and lifted eye , " even when without her skull and her vase of ointment . We learn to know St. Francis by his brown habit and shaven crown and wasted ardent features ; but how do we distinguish him from St. Anthony , or St ...
... hair and lifted eye , " even when without her skull and her vase of ointment . We learn to know St. Francis by his brown habit and shaven crown and wasted ardent features ; but how do we distinguish him from St. Anthony , or St ...
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... hair , who once spoke comfort to the soul of the fallen sinner that Sebas- tian , arrow - pierced , whose upward ardent glance spoke of courage and hope to the tyrant - ridden serf , that poor tortured slave , to whose aid St. Mark ...
... hair , who once spoke comfort to the soul of the fallen sinner that Sebas- tian , arrow - pierced , whose upward ardent glance spoke of courage and hope to the tyrant - ridden serf , that poor tortured slave , to whose aid St. Mark ...
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... hair , clad in a morning gown of a grave - coloured flowered damask , sitting in an elbow - chair . ' And he proceeds to say that , in looking back to these beginnings , he is in no way disturbed at the grossness of his infant theology ...
... hair , clad in a morning gown of a grave - coloured flowered damask , sitting in an elbow - chair . ' And he proceeds to say that , in looking back to these beginnings , he is in no way disturbed at the grossness of his infant theology ...
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... hair and small wings under the chin , which the more they re- semble nature in colour , feature , and detail , the more absurd they become , the original meaning being wholly lost or perverted . In painting , where a glory of angels is ...
... hair and small wings under the chin , which the more they re- semble nature in colour , feature , and detail , the more absurd they become , the original meaning being wholly lost or perverted . In painting , where a glory of angels is ...
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... hair and face and limbs of glowing red , and with white draperies . Vasari mentions an Adoration of the Magi by Liberale of Verona , in which a group of angels , all of a red colour , stand as a celestial guard round the Virgin and her ...
... hair and face and limbs of glowing red , and with white draperies . Vasari mentions an Adoration of the Magi by Liberale of Verona , in which a group of angels , all of a red colour , stand as a celestial guard round the Virgin and her ...
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