spaziosa

Updated: May 4, 2025

In the words 'la spaziosa testa e distesa' lies the feeling for grander forms, which go beyond a graceful prettiness; the eyebrows with him no longer resemble two bows, as in the Byzantine ideal, but a single wavy line; the nose seems to have been meant to be aquiline; the broad, full breast, the arms of moderate length, the effect of the beautiful hand, as it lies on the purple mantle all this foretells the sense of beauty of a coming time, and unconsciously approaches to that of classical antiquity.

Jacob Burckhardt - The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy