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he was senza errori ; but the great genius of this admirable painter was in some subtle manner measured and limited by a personal timidity which the circum- stances of his bourgeois life only fastened closer upon him, and from which he had not force of character to 56 Ahnari plwto\ [The Cathedral, Pisa. LA MADONNA DELLE GRAZIE HIS WORK 57 liberate himself. He was unfortunate in his marriage, the slave of a fateful devotion to the woman he loved and wedded, and for whom he did not hesitate to sacrifice both honour and fame. These things told upon his art ; but if the soul of Andrea lay in things of sense, and he missed the vision of ideal beauty, the secret of visible beauty was truly his, and was rendered by him with consummate skill. His figures are well-nigh faultless, his heads of young men and old are full of life and character, his women and children are natural and graceful ; and the subdued richness of his colouring, and the force and simplicity of his drawings complete a perfection of work rarely attained. Beautiful as are the details of his work, it is rather in the unity and homogeneity of the whole that his force lies. Before his masterpieces we experience an impres- sion at once instantaneous and complete. There is