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  • The complicated greca patterns can be followed by eye or hand and resolve themselves into representations of the Sky Serpent, one of the many guises of the Feathered Serpent, Quetzalcoatl.

    The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

  • The complicated greca patterns can be followed by eye or hand and resolve themselves into representations of the Sky Serpent, one of the many guises of the Feathered Serpent, Quetzalcoatl.

    The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day... 2005

  • -----, 1993, “La biblioteca greca di Francesco Patrizi”, in Bibliothecae selectae: da Cusano a Leopardi, E. Canone, ed.,

    Francesco Patrizi Purnell, Fred 2004

  • 1991/92, “Arethas and the ˜Collection philosophique™”, in Paleografia e codicologia greca, D. Harlfinger and G. Prato (eds.), Rome,

    Byzantine Philosophy Ierodiakonou, Katerina 2008

  • Though lecturers still hold up the Renaissance as an example of the happy and stagnant state of the arts in a golden age when rebels were unknown, their pupils are aware that Giotto, the father of Renaissance painting, broke with the _maniera greca_ at least as sharply as Cézanne did with the nineteenth-century convention; that in the art of the fifteenth century we have a revolt against Giottesque which must grievously have wounded many pious souls; and that Raphael himself stood, in his day, for a new movement.

    Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

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