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[128] See above, Chapter III, Relation of Sculpture to Painting.
[129] The wonderful beauty of Orcagna's faces, profile after profile laid together like lilies in a garden border, can only be discovered after long study.

It has been my good fortune to examine, through the kindness of Mrs.Higford Burr, of Aldermaston, a large series of tracings, taken chiefly by the Right Hon.

A.H.Layard, from the frescoes of Giottesque and other early masters, which, by the selection of simple form in outline, demonstrate not only the grand composition of these religious paintings, but also the incomparable loveliness of their types.

How great the _Trecentisti_ were as draughtsmen, how imaginative was the beauty of their conception, can be best appreciated by thus artificially separating their design from their colouring.

The semblance of archaism disappears, and leaves a vision of pure beauty, delicate and spiritual.