The Frank Muir Book: An Irreverent Companion to Social HistoryPearson Education New Zealand Limited, 1976 - 372 pages |
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Page 244
... pictures infuriated William Hogarth : Picture jobbers ... are always ready to raise a great cry in the prints whenever they think their craft is in danger , and indeed it is their interest to depreciate every English work , as hurtful ...
... pictures infuriated William Hogarth : Picture jobbers ... are always ready to raise a great cry in the prints whenever they think their craft is in danger , and indeed it is their interest to depreciate every English work , as hurtful ...
Page 259
... picture from two wholly respectable sources : Giorgione's Concert champĂȘtre and Raphael's drawing , Judgement of Paris : Giorgione had conceived the happy idea of a fĂȘte champĂȘtre , in which , although the gentlemen were dressed , the ...
... picture from two wholly respectable sources : Giorgione's Concert champĂȘtre and Raphael's drawing , Judgement of Paris : Giorgione had conceived the happy idea of a fĂȘte champĂȘtre , in which , although the gentlemen were dressed , the ...
Page 262
... picture Alma - Tadema exhibited in England , The Pyrrhic Dance , was so enthusiastically received that he moved to England and became a British subject . Ruskin wrote of the picture : The general effect was exactly like a microscopic ...
... picture Alma - Tadema exhibited in England , The Pyrrhic Dance , was so enthusiastically received that he moved to England and became a British subject . Ruskin wrote of the picture : The general effect was exactly like a microscopic ...
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