Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... destroyed by time , which consumes all things ; and as there was then no writer to record the history of these productions , they could not be made known to posterity , at least by this method : and the artists , as well as their works ...
... destroyed by time , which consumes all things ; and as there was then no writer to record the history of these productions , they could not be made known to posterity , at least by this method : and the artists , as well as their works ...
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... destroyed , had not then made their incursions . It is true that architecture suf- fered less during those times than the other arts , as may be inferred from the bath erected by Constantine at the entrance to the principal portico of ...
... destroyed , had not then made their incursions . It is true that architecture suf- fered less during those times than the other arts , as may be inferred from the bath erected by Constantine at the entrance to the principal portico of ...
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... destroyed , by the orders of Cosmo I , and in the lifetime of Vasari himself , to make way for the fortifications of the city . See Muratori Ant . Ital . vol . iv , p . 428 ; also Rondinelli , Stato antico e moderno di Arezzo , 1755. Ed ...
... destroyed , by the orders of Cosmo I , and in the lifetime of Vasari himself , to make way for the fortifications of the city . See Muratori Ant . Ital . vol . iv , p . 428 ; also Rondinelli , Stato antico e moderno di Arezzo , 1755. Ed ...
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... destroyed by those unbridled barbarians who had nothing of humanity but the name and image . Conspicuous among these were the Visigoths , who , having made Alaric their king , invaded Italy and assaulted Rome , which they twice sacked ...
... destroyed by those unbridled barbarians who had nothing of humanity but the name and image . Conspicuous among these were the Visigoths , who , having made Alaric their king , invaded Italy and assaulted Rome , which they twice sacked ...
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... destroyed all the wondrous statues , paintings , sculptures , mosaics , and other ornaments of the false pagan deities , but at the same time extinguished the very memory , in casting down the honours , of numberless excellent ancients ...
... destroyed all the wondrous statues , paintings , sculptures , mosaics , and other ornaments of the false pagan deities , but at the same time extinguished the very memory , in casting down the honours , of numberless excellent ancients ...
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admirably adorned afterwards Agnolo Agostino Andrea Andrea Pisano Andrea Tafi angels Antonio arches architect Arezzo Arnolfo artist Baldinucci beautiful beneath bishop braccia bronze Brunellesco Buffalmacco building Buonamico Casentino cathedral Christ church of San Cicognara Cimabue colouring commenced completed constructed Cosimo Cupola decorated depicted disciple Donatello Donato door Duomo edifice Engravings erected excellent executed façade figures Filippo Filippo Brunelleschi finished Flor Florence Florentine fresco Gaddi Ghiberti Giottino Giotto grace hand high altar History of Painting honour Jacopo Jacopo della Quercia labours Lanzi Lorenzo Lorenzo Ghiberti Madonna manner marble Maria del Fiore Masaccio master Medici Messer Michelozzo monks mosaic Niccolo ornaments painted painter palace Paolo Paolo Uccello picture Pietro Pisa Pisano placed Pope portrait principal chapel remain represented Rome Rumohr sacristy saint San Francesco San Giovanni Santa Croce Santo sculpture seen Siena Simon Spinello Stefano stories Taddeo Taddeo Gaddi tomb Tuscany various Virgin vols walls wherein
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