Memoirs of Early Italian Painters: And of the Progress of Painting in Italy, from Cimabue to Bassano |
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... four magnificent angels winged and sceptred . " In the lower corners of the triangles are represented naked Genii bearing taste- ful vases on their heads ; out of these grow rich foliage and flowers , on which hang other Genii , who ...
... four magnificent angels winged and sceptred . " In the lower corners of the triangles are represented naked Genii bearing taste- ful vases on their heads ; out of these grow rich foliage and flowers , on which hang other Genii , who ...
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... four figures . When finished this picture was carried in grand procession , attended by music and rejoicing crowds , to its place in the Cathedral . In the year 1506 it was removed . The panel was afterwards sawed through into two parts ...
... four figures . When finished this picture was carried in grand procession , attended by music and rejoicing crowds , to its place in the Cathedral . In the year 1506 it was removed . The panel was afterwards sawed through into two parts ...
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... four figures . When finished this picture was carried in grand procession , attended by music and rejoicing crowds , to its place in the Cathedral . In the year 1506 it was removed . The panel was afterwards sawed through into two parts ...
... four figures . When finished this picture was carried in grand procession , attended by music and rejoicing crowds , to its place in the Cathedral . In the year 1506 it was removed . The panel was afterwards sawed through into two parts ...
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... four sons and four daughters , but we do not hear that any of his descendants became distinguished in art or otherwise . * Before we proceed to give some account of the per- sonal character and influence of Giotto , both as a man and an ...
... four sons and four daughters , but we do not hear that any of his descendants became distinguished in art or otherwise . * Before we proceed to give some account of the per- sonal character and influence of Giotto , both as a man and an ...
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... four corners are four tall cypress - trees , their dark , monumental , spiral forms contrasting with a little lowly cross in the centre , round which ivy or some other creeping plant has wound a luxuriant bower . The beautiful Gothic ar ...
... four corners are four tall cypress - trees , their dark , monumental , spiral forms contrasting with a little lowly cross in the centre , round which ivy or some other creeping plant has wound a luxuriant bower . The beautiful Gothic ar ...
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Page 238 - Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 195 - A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both, and yet neither. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke Lorenzo. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon his hand. What from beneath his helm-like bonnet scowls ? Is it a face, or but an eyeless skull ? 'Tis lost in shade ; yet, like the basilisk, It fascinates, and is intolerable.
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Page 182 - I gave him so violent a blow upon the nose that I felt the bone and cartilage yield under my hand as if they had been made of paste, and the mark I then gave him he will carry to his grave...