The first that the ornaments used by Angelico, Giotto, and Perugino, but
especially by Angelico, are always of a generic and abstract character.They are not diamonds, nor brocades, nor velvets, nor gold embroideries; they
are mere spots of gold or of color,oil paintings for sale, simple patterns upon textureless
draperies; the angel wings burn with transparent crimson and purple and amber,
but they are not set forth with peacock's plumes; the golden circlets gleam with
changeful light, but they are not beaded with elaborate pearls nor set with
studied sapphires. flower oil paintings on canvas
In the works of Filippino Lippi, Mantegna, and many other painters following,
interesting examples may be found of the opposite treatment; and as in Lippi the
heads are usually very sweet, and the composition severe, the degrading effect
of the realized decorations and imitated dress may be seen in him simply, and
without any addition of painfulness from other deficiencies of feeling. The
larger of the two pictures in the Tuscan room of the Uffizii, but for this
defect, would have been a very noble ideal work. wholesale oil paintings
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