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ceded in each case by the (italicized) statement or expression: giving rise to them:-- (1) P. 73. "_The peculiar characteristic of the Byzantine churches is the dome._" "Form derived first from the Catacombs. See Lord Lindsay." (2) P. 89. "_The octagon baptistry at Florence, ascribed to Lombard kings...._" "No; it is Etruscan work of pure descent." (3) _Id._ "_S. Michele, of Pavia, pure Lombard of seventh century, rebuilt in tenth._" "Churches were often rebuilt with their original sculptures. I believe many in this church to be Lombard. See next page." (4) P. 95. "_The revolution begun by Rafaelle has ended in the vulgar painting, the sentimental prints, and the colored statuettes, which have made the religious art of the nineteenth century a by-word for its feebleness on the one side, its superstition on the other._" "Excellent; but my good scholar has not distinguished vulgar from non-vulgar naturalism. Perhaps she will as I read on." [Compare the last note in the book, pp. 487-8, where Miss Owen's statement that "_the cause of Rafaelle's popularity ... has been that predominance of exaggerated dramatic representation, which in his pictures is visible above all moral and spiritual qualities,_" is noted to be "Intensely and accurately true."] (5) P. 108. "_It may be ... it is scarcely credible._" "What does it matter what may be or what is scarcely credible? I hope the reader will consider what a waste of time the thinking of things is when we can never rightly know them." (6) P. 109. On the statement that "_no vital school of art has ever existed save as the expression of the vital and unquestioned faith of a people,_" followed by some remarks on external helps to devotion, there is a note at the word "people." "Down to this line this page is unquestionably and entirely true. I do not answer for the rest of the clause, but do not dispute it." (7) P. 113. _S. Michele at Lucca._ "The church is now only a modern architect's copy." (8) P. 129. "_There is a good model of this pulpit_" (Niccola's in the Pisan Baptistry) "_in the Kensington Museum, through which we may learn much of the rise of Gothic sculpture._" "You cannot do anything of the kind. Pisan sculpture can only be studied in the original marble; hal
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