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... Fresco by Filippino Lippi , in the Church of S. M. del Carmine at Florence 83 Benozzo Gozzoli .. 88 Dancing Figures from the Marriage Feast of Jacob and Rachel . Benozzo Gozzoli 92 Ministering Angel , by L. Signorelli . From the Chapel ...
... Fresco by Filippino Lippi , in the Church of S. M. del Carmine at Florence 83 Benozzo Gozzoli .. 88 Dancing Figures from the Marriage Feast of Jacob and Rachel . Benozzo Gozzoli 92 Ministering Angel , by L. Signorelli . From the Chapel ...
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... fresco , an art never wholly lost , or on panels of seasoned wood , and the colours mixed with water thickened with white of egg or the juice of the young shoots of the fig - tree . This last method was styled by the Italians a colla or ...
... fresco , an art never wholly lost , or on panels of seasoned wood , and the colours mixed with water thickened with white of egg or the juice of the young shoots of the fig - tree . This last method was styled by the Italians a colla or ...
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... frescoes in the church of St. Francis at Assisi , which had been begun by Greek painters and continued by Giunta Pisano . The decoration of this celebrated church is memorable in the history of painting . It is known that many of the ...
... frescoes in the church of St. Francis at Assisi , which had been begun by Greek painters and continued by Giunta Pisano . The decoration of this celebrated church is memorable in the history of painting . It is known that many of the ...
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... frescoes in the church of Assisi . He was the first to leave the stiff monotony of the traditional forms for the study of nature and the antique . The story says that his emulative fancy was early excited by the beautiful antique ...
... frescoes in the church of Assisi . He was the first to leave the stiff monotony of the traditional forms for the study of nature and the antique . The story says that his emulative fancy was early excited by the beautiful antique ...
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... fresco , containing the heads of two of the Apostles , who are bending in grief and devotion over the body of St. John , was in the collection of Mr. Rogers , the poet , and is now in the National Gallery ( No. 276 ) . It certainly ...
... fresco , containing the heads of two of the Apostles , who are bending in grief and devotion over the body of St. John , was in the collection of Mr. Rogers , the poet , and is now in the National Gallery ( No. 276 ) . It certainly ...
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