Memoirs of Early Italian Painters: And of the Progress of Painting in Italy, from Cimabue to Bassano |
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... and working in the cities and churches of Italy previous to 1240 ; and it is possible to trace back an uninter- rupted series of pictorial remains and names of painters B even to the fourth century . But in depriving Cimabue.
... and working in the cities and churches of Italy previous to 1240 ; and it is possible to trace back an uninter- rupted series of pictorial remains and names of painters B even to the fourth century . But in depriving Cimabue.
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... remains to interest and fix attention on the period at which he lived : his name has stood too long , too conspicuously , too justly , as a land- mark in the history of art to be now thrust back under the waves of oblivion : A rapid ...
... remains to interest and fix attention on the period at which he lived : his name has stood too long , too conspicuously , too justly , as a land- mark in the history of art to be now thrust back under the waves of oblivion : A rapid ...
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... remains of pictorial art are the mosaics in the churches , and the miniature paintings with which the MS . Bibles and Gospels were decorated . But during the 10th and 11th centuries Italy fell into a state of complete barbarism and ...
... remains of pictorial art are the mosaics in the churches , and the miniature paintings with which the MS . Bibles and Gospels were decorated . But during the 10th and 11th centuries Italy fell into a state of complete barbarism and ...
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... remains to us was painted by Giunta Pisano , about 1235 , and was the portrait of Frate Elia , a monk of Assisi . Perhaps Vasari means that the San Francesco was the first re- presentation of a sacred personage for which nature had been ...
... remains to us was painted by Giunta Pisano , about 1235 , and was the portrait of Frate Elia , a monk of Assisi . Perhaps Vasari means that the San Francesco was the first re- presentation of a sacred personage for which nature had been ...
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... remains of earlier art , more than excuses the wonder and enthusiasm of his contemporaries . The pope , Boniface VIII . , hearing of his marvellous skill , invited him to Rome ; and the story says that the messenger of his Holiness ...
... remains of earlier art , more than excuses the wonder and enthusiasm of his contemporaries . The pope , Boniface VIII . , hearing of his marvellous skill , invited him to Rome ; and the story says that the messenger of his Holiness ...
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