Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... gave birth to idolatry . His re- nowned daughter - in - law , moreover , Semiramis , queen of Babylon , when building that city , not only placed various figures of animals , drawn and coloured from nature , among the ornaments of her ...
... gave birth to idolatry . His re- nowned daughter - in - law , moreover , Semiramis , queen of Babylon , when building that city , not only placed various figures of animals , drawn and coloured from nature , among the ornaments of her ...
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... gave to the Christian priests . The magni- ficent church of San Giovanni Laterano , erected by the same emperor , is an example of a similar kind , proving that sculpture had already declined greatly in his day : the figures of the ...
... gave to the Christian priests . The magni- ficent church of San Giovanni Laterano , erected by the same emperor , is an example of a similar kind , proving that sculpture had already declined greatly in his day : the figures of the ...
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... gave an immortality , the very memory , both of one and the other , would have been soon extin- guished . Of these , some were commemorated by statues , and by inscriptions , which abounded in and on the different public and private ...
... gave an immortality , the very memory , both of one and the other , would have been soon extin- guished . Of these , some were commemorated by statues , and by inscriptions , which abounded in and on the different public and private ...
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... gave great satisfaction to the prior , who caused the artist to accompany him to his convent of San Francesco in Pisa , where Cimabue painted a picture of San Francesco . This was considered by the Pisans to be a work of extraordinary ...
... gave great satisfaction to the prior , who caused the artist to accompany him to his convent of San Francesco in Pisa , where Cimabue painted a picture of San Francesco . This was considered by the Pisans to be a work of extraordinary ...
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... gave the designs for enlarg- ing the church of Santa Maria Maggiore , which was then without the city and held in high veneration , as having been consecrated many years previously by Pope Pelagius . With respect to size and style ...
... gave the designs for enlarg- ing the church of Santa Maria Maggiore , which was then without the city and held in high veneration , as having been consecrated many years previously by Pope Pelagius . With respect to size and style ...
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