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Page xxii
... extremely difficult of detection ; and one by means of which amateurs of little experience were frequently defrauded out of immense sums . After Payne Knight , the acknowledged chief of English archæologists , had been so notoriously ...
... extremely difficult of detection ; and one by means of which amateurs of little experience were frequently defrauded out of immense sums . After Payne Knight , the acknowledged chief of English archæologists , had been so notoriously ...
Page xxvi
... extremely agreeable to our party to return again after these æsthetic disquisitions to the con- sideration of the gems , and we were in truth forced to re- gard this as a most singular incident that precisely the very flowers of ...
... extremely agreeable to our party to return again after these æsthetic disquisitions to the con- sideration of the gems , and we were in truth forced to re- gard this as a most singular incident that precisely the very flowers of ...
Page xxxix
... extremely rude , the other highly finished as regards the intagli . In Sicily and Magna Græcia gem - engraving , like the cognate art of die - sinking , attained to its highest perfection first . Greece itself was ever a poor country ...
... extremely rude , the other highly finished as regards the intagli . In Sicily and Magna Græcia gem - engraving , like the cognate art of die - sinking , attained to its highest perfection first . Greece itself was ever a poor country ...
Page xliv
... extremely valuable historically from the legends that surround the regal portrait , expressing his name and high- sounding titles . Barbarous as the style of most of these intagli is , and coarsely as the lines are sunk into the stone ...
... extremely valuable historically from the legends that surround the regal portrait , expressing his name and high- sounding titles . Barbarous as the style of most of these intagli is , and coarsely as the lines are sunk into the stone ...
Page xlvi
... extremely rare . By the end of the same century we find Camillo Leonardo praising Anichini , Gio . Maria da Mantova , and Tagliacarne , as equal to any of the ancients , and stating that their works were diffused over all Italy , which ...
... extremely rare . By the end of the same century we find Camillo Leonardo praising Anichini , Gio . Maria da Mantova , and Tagliacarne , as equal to any of the ancients , and stating that their works were diffused over all Italy , which ...
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