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... sculptured by the pupils of the greatest Greek masters at Rome . That these men deteriorated in their foreign home is not to be wondered at , if we consider the lower standard of taste , as well as the greater heaviness and comparative ...
... sculptured by the pupils of the greatest Greek masters at Rome . That these men deteriorated in their foreign home is not to be wondered at , if we consider the lower standard of taste , as well as the greater heaviness and comparative ...
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... sculptured in a long spiral , which winds from the base to the summit of the pillar , divided midway by a Victory sestertii , equal , says the Abbé Barthélémy , to 9,000,000 francs ( Déchazelle , op . cit . vol . ii . p . 174 ) . 6 1 ...
... sculptured in a long spiral , which winds from the base to the summit of the pillar , divided midway by a Victory sestertii , equal , says the Abbé Barthélémy , to 9,000,000 francs ( Déchazelle , op . cit . vol . ii . p . 174 ) . 6 1 ...
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... sculptured with reliefs , generally of the rudest description , illustrating dogmas , mysteries , and scenes from Holy Writ , which had a plain in- structive meaning to the unlettered disciple , and another sense to del 1 From ...
... sculptured with reliefs , generally of the rudest description , illustrating dogmas , mysteries , and scenes from Holy Writ , which had a plain in- structive meaning to the unlettered disciple , and another sense to del 1 From ...
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... sculptured in the latter part of the fourth century , which set forth the doctrinal mysteries of Christianity ; such also is that of Junius Bassus in the crypt of St. Peter's , whose double row of reliefs portray Biblical scenes ...
... sculptured in the latter part of the fourth century , which set forth the doctrinal mysteries of Christianity ; such also is that of Junius Bassus in the crypt of St. Peter's , whose double row of reliefs portray Biblical scenes ...
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... sculptured two columns for the Tabernacle of St. George in Val Pulicella . 2 Erected by St. Calixtus , patriarch of Aquileja , in the reign of the Lombard king Luitprand ( 712-744 ) . The other examples are the tomb of Pemmone , Duke of ...
... sculptured two columns for the Tabernacle of St. George in Val Pulicella . 2 Erected by St. Calixtus , patriarch of Aquileja , in the reign of the Lombard king Luitprand ( 712-744 ) . The other examples are the tomb of Pemmone , Duke of ...
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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.