Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... Italian painters was suited to the process called fresco , a certain technical manner of mural painting ; and in this ... Italy , and during the first half of the sixteenth century oil - painting was firmly established . Raphael adopted ...
... Italian painters was suited to the process called fresco , a certain technical manner of mural painting ; and in this ... Italy , and during the first half of the sixteenth century oil - painting was firmly established . Raphael adopted ...
Page 87
... Italy , above all , breathed its influence into the receptive soul of the English poet . As an ambassador to Florence he became acquainted with Boccaccio , the great ( though licentious ) Italian novelist , and from him he received the ...
... Italy , above all , breathed its influence into the receptive soul of the English poet . As an ambassador to Florence he became acquainted with Boccaccio , the great ( though licentious ) Italian novelist , and from him he received the ...
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... Italy he trudged as merry as a cricket on a summer's day , meeting with the strangest adventures , picking up a wonderful knowledge of the world and its ways , with an empty stomach one day and a full one the next , according as the ...
... Italy he trudged as merry as a cricket on a summer's day , meeting with the strangest adventures , picking up a wonderful knowledge of the world and its ways , with an empty stomach one day and a full one the next , according as the ...
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