cavalcasella

Updated: May 31, 2025

Crowe and Cavalcasella please; but that architecture in the descent of the Holy Ghost is by the man who painted the north transept of Assisi, and there need be no more talk about the matter, for you never catch a restorer doing his old architecture right again.

John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence

You are, therefore instructed reader called upon to admire a piece of art which no painter ever produced the equal of except Raphael; but it is unhappily deficient, according to Crowe, in the "mere rendering of form"; and, according to Signor Cavalcasella, "no opinion can be given as to its colour."

John Ruskin - Mornings in Florence