The Holy Asparagus
Vittore Carpaccio. Madonna and Blessing Child.
SW, Davis trans., p. 182.
Mme de Guermantes advanced smiling and added to the … wooly weave [of the red carpets] a rosy velvet, an epidermis of light, the sort of tenderness, the sort of grave sweetness amid pomp and joy that characterize … certain paintings of Carpaccio….
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