Excerpt from The Ways of the Gods But while I reverenced the sublimity of the Duomo and greatly admired the Baptistery, with its bronze doors by Ghiberti, I fell in love at first Sight with the Campanile of Giotto. This dream of form and color, seen for the first time in the holy hour of dawn, inspired my soul with sensations of delight that were painful in their intensity. AS I stood in silent worship before this product of human genius, it seemed to me a thing of life. It was the soul of the artist immortalized, - Giotto ...
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Excerpt from The Ways of the Gods But while I reverenced the sublimity of the Duomo and greatly admired the Baptistery, with its bronze doors by Ghiberti, I fell in love at first Sight with the Campanile of Giotto. This dream of form and color, seen for the first time in the holy hour of dawn, inspired my soul with sensations of delight that were painful in their intensity. AS I stood in silent worship before this product of human genius, it seemed to me a thing of life. It was the soul of the artist immortalized, - Giotto existent in his work! So lost was I in admiration of this bell-tower that I forgot for the time why it was that I had come to the Piazza del Duomo at this early hour in the morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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