Word: reppresentazioni
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...exhibitions of Florentine illustrated books (Savonarola tracts and Scare Reppresentazioni) now being shown at the Fogg Art Museum is of the greatest interest, not only for the study of Italian woodcuts, but as showing the beginnings of the art of book illustration. In these first illustrated books the book page was regarded as a unit, with text and illustration in perfect harmony. The pictures in general were not intended to apply to a particular passage of the text, but were illustrations of some principle of episode which would serve to arouse the reader's religious emotions. Certain stock illustration appear...
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