Tuscan Sculptors: Their Lives, Works, and Times : with Illustrations from Original Drawings and Photographs, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 40
Page 23
... Medici.1 In the first half of the sixteenth century Girolamo Coltellini made the St. John , and perhaps some of the other statuettes , which stand upon the volutes above the Arca ; and in the seventeenth Carlo Bianconi sculptured the ...
... Medici.1 In the first half of the sixteenth century Girolamo Coltellini made the St. John , and perhaps some of the other statuettes , which stand upon the volutes above the Arca ; and in the seventeenth Carlo Bianconi sculptured the ...
Page 116
... Medici in 1555 , she brought in dower no new names worthy to shine among those of the great Tuscan sculptors . That the Sienese artists of the thirteenth century prepared the way for those who , in the first half of the fourteenth ...
... Medici in 1555 , she brought in dower no new names worthy to shine among those of the great Tuscan sculptors . That the Sienese artists of the thirteenth century prepared the way for those who , in the first half of the fourteenth ...
Page 123
... Medici , that great merchant prince , who not only spent vast sums upon the acquisition of antique treasures , which he used as means of education , but also bestowed that best sort of patronage upon contemporaneous art , which consists ...
... Medici , that great merchant prince , who not only spent vast sums upon the acquisition of antique treasures , which he used as means of education , but also bestowed that best sort of patronage upon contemporaneous art , which consists ...
Page 134
... Medici ( supposed to be by Pyrgoteles or Polycletus ) which was cut upon a large cornelian ; he placed it between ... Medici , may have been carried off by the French after the flight of Piero de ' Medici . About 1428 . 1 It is always ...
... Medici ( supposed to be by Pyrgoteles or Polycletus ) which was cut upon a large cornelian ; he placed it between ... Medici , may have been carried off by the French after the flight of Piero de ' Medici . About 1428 . 1 It is always ...
Page 140
... Medici ( father of Cosmo ) , had gained immense sums by banking operations , especially during the Council of Constance , when he lent money to the Pope ; from this , perhaps , arose the story , that Pope John , in gratitude for his ...
... Medici ( father of Cosmo ) , had gained immense sums by banking operations , especially during the Council of Constance , when he lent money to the Pope ; from this , perhaps , arose the story , that Pope John , in gratitude for his ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adorned Agostino altar Andrea Andrea Orcagna Andrea Pisano angels antique Antonio Arca arch architect architectural Arnolfo artists Baptistry Bartolomeo bas-reliefs beautiful Benedetto Bishop Bologna bronze Brunelleschi building bust Campo Santo Cardinal century chapel Charles of Anjou Christ Christian church of San Conradino Croce death decorated died Domenico Donatello door drapery Duomo Duomo at Siena Etruscan façade figures Florence Florentine font Frà Francesco Ghiberti Giovanni Pisano Gothic Greek head Italian Italy Jacopo John Lionardo Loggia Lorenzo Luca della Robbia Lucca Madonna and Child marble Maria Matteo Medici Michael Angelo Michelozzo modelled monument Naples Niccola Pisano niches Orcagna ornaments Orvieto painted palace Palazzo Paolo Perugia Piero pilasters Pisa Pistoja Pollajuolo Pope pulpit Quercia relief representing Ricci Roman Rome Rossellino saint San Michele Sansavino Santa sarcophagus scholar sculptured Siena Sienese statue of St statuettes Strozzi style tabernacle tomb Torregiano Tuscan Uffizi Vasari Venice Verocchio Vide Virgin
Popular passages
Page lv - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Page lvi - Renaissance in the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century...
Page xxviii - Other sculptors, who lived at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century...
Page 108 - ... is no effort at deceptive imitation of pressure. — It is understood as a pillow, but not mistaken for one. The hair is bound in a flat braid over the fair brow, the sweet and arched eyes are closed, the tenderness of the loving lips is set and quiet ; there is that about them which forbids breath ; something which is not death nor sleep, but the pure image of both.
Page 264 - Tristan,' represented by MS. No. 103 of the Bibliotheque Nationale and by several printed texts of the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries, copies of which are in the British Museum.
Page 206 - The bust of Bishop Salutati is certainly one of the most living and strongly characterised "counterfeit presentments" of nature ever produced in marble. Any one who has looked at those piercing eyes, strongly marked features, and that mouth, with its combined bitterness and sweetness of expression, knows that the bishop was a man of nervous temperament, a dry logical reasoner, who, though sometimes sharp in his words, was always kindly in his deeds. From the top of his jewelled mitre to the rich...
Page 20 - Dominick, and the women and others who were present were filled with grief and horror. They brought the body of the youth into the chapter-house, and laid it before the altar; and Dominick, having prayed, turned to the body of the young man, saying,
Page 184 - I can do anything possible to man,' he wrote to Lodovico Sforza, 'and as well as any living artist either in sculpture or painting.' But he would do nothing as taskwork, and his creative brain loved better to invent than to...
Page 54 - the highest mark of prudence in a people of noble origin is to proceed in the management of their affairs so that their magnanimity and wisdom may be evinced in their outward acts, we order Arnolfo, head-master of our commune, to make a design for the restoration of S. Reparata in a style of magnificence which neither the industry nor power of man can surpass...
Page 82 - I., ob. 1366) consists of his recumbent statue, clad in armour placed high against the wall, beneath a rich Gothic canopy. His son, Lorenzo, upon whose funeral obsequies he spent more than 50,000 gold florins, lies below under a marble slab, upon which is sculptured the effigy of this " youth of a most lovely countenance, cavalier and great baron, tried in arms, and eminent for his graceful manners, and his gracious and noble aspect.