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... stands among the most noted early Greek sculptors , is said to have been the first who strove to free himself from traditional expression in art , marking out nerves and veins , and carefully elaborating the hair ; to have been , in ...
... stands among the most noted early Greek sculptors , is said to have been the first who strove to free himself from traditional expression in art , marking out nerves and veins , and carefully elaborating the hair ; to have been , in ...
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... stands ; 2 a second , Novius ( Novius Blesamus ) , sculptor at Rome , probably flourished at a much later date . Other sculptors , who lived at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century after the foundation of Rome ...
... stands ; 2 a second , Novius ( Novius Blesamus ) , sculptor at Rome , probably flourished at a much later date . Other sculptors , who lived at the end of the fifth or the beginning of the sixth century after the foundation of Rome ...
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... stand many children picking grapes , which others are treading out below . Besides the two statues of the Pastor Bonus at the Lateran , the earliest and best of which we give in a woodcut ( p . 27 ) , there is a third of inferior style ...
... stand many children picking grapes , which others are treading out below . Besides the two statues of the Pastor Bonus at the Lateran , the earliest and best of which we give in a woodcut ( p . 27 ) , there is a third of inferior style ...
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... stands in the Piazza of the town of A.D. 610- Barletta in Apulia , supposed to represent either the Emperor Heraclius or the Lombard King Eraco ; 2 and which , though tra- ditionally believed to have been cast at Constantinople by Poly ...
... stands in the Piazza of the town of A.D. 610- Barletta in Apulia , supposed to represent either the Emperor Heraclius or the Lombard King Eraco ; 2 and which , though tra- ditionally believed to have been cast at Constantinople by Poly ...
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... stands over the chief portal of the Basilica of Monza , 5 in which the Holy Spirit is represented in the likeness of a dove holding a vase in its mouth , from which water · 1 Cantu , St. degli Italiani , vol . ii . p . 25. Not a single ...
... stands over the chief portal of the Basilica of Monza , 5 in which the Holy Spirit is represented in the likeness of a dove holding a vase in its mouth , from which water · 1 Cantu , St. degli Italiani , vol . ii . p . 25. Not a single ...
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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.