"[Bellini's] expression of certain emotions is as poignant as any in the whole range of art, but it is never ecstatic or excessive; with him sorrow is never desperate, compassion never effeminate, nor does the tenderest affection ever verge on sentimentality."
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Giovanni Bellini by Roger Fry, ISBN-13: 978-8869447624, (1995)
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