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Excerpt from Walks in Florence, and Its Environs, Vol. 2
Gallery. We, therefore, refer the visitor, for the numbers, to the latest printed catalogue, and only select the most important pictures, following, as nearly as possible, the chronological order.
The earliest example of art is 3. Madonna and Child, by Andrea Rico of Candia, who died about 1105. His works belong to what has been called Byzantine art. The treatment of the subject is conventional. The Child, seated on one hand of the Virgin, clings with a natural movement to her other hand though this picture is defective in drawing, the action is not devoid of grace. The outline of the Virgin's head is traced with care, the nose is long, the eyes half closed, but sweet in expression, and there is a certain dignity in the pose of the head, which inclines to one side the colour, however, is brown and coppery, and the outline hard.
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