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... heads are portraits of some noble personages who held these saints in special devotion , and admirable , from this point of view , is the head of the lady . Again we have absolutely no clue to identify one who must have been a very ...
... heads are portraits of some noble personages who held these saints in special devotion , and admirable , from this point of view , is the head of the lady . Again we have absolutely no clue to identify one who must have been a very ...
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... heads might have originated in such casual distractions . Certainly the nondescript figures , such as those all heads and legs , or a head on one leg , as on a misericord in the Tufton Street collection , could have had no spiritual ...
... heads might have originated in such casual distractions . Certainly the nondescript figures , such as those all heads and legs , or a head on one leg , as on a misericord in the Tufton Street collection , could have had no spiritual ...
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... head under his arm , giving the effect that the child's smiling head is that of the goose . As a matter of fact , no other compound of human and animal figures is more naturally convincing and suggestive than the human head on a bird's ...
... head under his arm , giving the effect that the child's smiling head is that of the goose . As a matter of fact , no other compound of human and animal figures is more naturally convincing and suggestive than the human head on a bird's ...
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Introductory Prehistoric | 1 |
Wood Sculpture in the early Middle | 19 |
The Thirteenth Fourteenth | 40 |
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