Word: saints
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very great credit to the publisher's experts. The clearness of the impression is amazing. The table at which St. Jerome is reading recalls some of Eastlake's remarks about the absurdity of those in use at present. Durer evidently was not particularly occupied with St. Jerome as a saint; he merely wished to represent an old man absorbed in study, and took far more delight in giving in firm, strong lines all the details of a homely interior. The flood of light warms one's very heart, and the shagginess of the lion delights us nearly as much...
...spice of sinner with the saint...