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... Venetians are too poetical to come under this designation , so I shall say no more of it here . And animal - painting , as a special class of art , such as Rubens , and Snyders , and Landseer have made it , was also unknown . At the ...
... Venetians are too poetical to come under this designation , so I shall say no more of it here . And animal - painting , as a special class of art , such as Rubens , and Snyders , and Landseer have made it , was also unknown . At the ...
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... Venetians , give us lovely bits of background to their religious scenes . That intense sympathy with natural scenery which we find in the works of Thom- son and Wordsworth as poets , Cuyp and Hobbema as painters , seems to have been the ...
... Venetians , give us lovely bits of background to their religious scenes . That intense sympathy with natural scenery which we find in the works of Thom- son and Wordsworth as poets , Cuyp and Hobbema as painters , seems to have been the ...
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... Venetian , and Paduan schools as distinctly characterised ; but from 1400 to 1450 we still find the painters of Florence , Sienna , and Arezzo in advance of all the rest in power , invention , fertility , and in the application of ...
... Venetian , and Paduan schools as distinctly characterised ; but from 1400 to 1450 we still find the painters of Florence , Sienna , and Arezzo in advance of all the rest in power , invention , fertility , and in the application of ...
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... Venetian painter , Domenico Veneziano , with whom he had formed a friendship , and who , having acquired con- siderable reputation , was called to Florence to assist ANDREA DI CASTAGNO in painting a chapel in Santa Maria Novella ...
... Venetian painter , Domenico Veneziano , with whom he had formed a friendship , and who , having acquired con- siderable reputation , was called to Florence to assist ANDREA DI CASTAGNO in painting a chapel in Santa Maria Novella ...
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... Venetian JACOPO BELLINI , father of the two great Bellini , of whom we shall have to speak presently , arrived in Padua , where he was employed to paint some pictures . He was considered as the rival of Squarcione , both as a painter ...
... Venetian JACOPO BELLINI , father of the two great Bellini , of whom we shall have to speak presently , arrived in Padua , where he was employed to paint some pictures . He was considered as the rival of Squarcione , both as a painter ...
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