FRA BARTOLOMEO, a LEONARDO DA VINCI, a PERUGINO, a RAPHAEL, and a MICHAEL ANGELO. It was felt, that the fairest among the sons of men, and the connections in which he stood, must furnish the most worthy material for the pencil. The most lofty and impressive music, according to Old Testament example, resounded in the public worship of God. Poetry sang her deepest and most tender strains to the Lord and his bride; and the greatest poet of the Middle Ages, DANTE, has left behind him in his “Divine Comedy”
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