Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... give Vasari as he is , without the slightest deviation from the letter of the text . In doing this , certain sacrifices have not unfrequently been called for in respect to style . The reader whose taste has been formed on the more ...
... give Vasari as he is , without the slightest deviation from the letter of the text . In doing this , certain sacrifices have not unfrequently been called for in respect to style . The reader whose taste has been formed on the more ...
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... give them a clearer outline or more effective shadows ; and as to yourself , it shall suffice me if your Excellency will deign to look favourably on my simple work , remembering that the necessity I am in of providing myself with the ...
... give them a clearer outline or more effective shadows ; and as to yourself , it shall suffice me if your Excellency will deign to look favourably on my simple work , remembering that the necessity I am in of providing myself with the ...
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... give me the opportunity of writing their lives at more length , but also of supplying what may have been wanting to the perfection of the first work . For I have had opportunities in the meanwhile of attaining a clearer comprehension ...
... give me the opportunity of writing their lives at more length , but also of supplying what may have been wanting to the perfection of the first work . For I have had opportunities in the meanwhile of attaining a clearer comprehension ...
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... gives us clear proof ; for the riches of this building proceed solely from columns , capitals , bases , architraves , corni , doors , and other ornaments and incrustations , all taken fran different localities , and from the edifices so ...
... gives us clear proof ; for the riches of this building proceed solely from columns , capitals , bases , architraves , corni , doors , and other ornaments and incrustations , all taken fran different localities , and from the edifices so ...
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... give either cor- rect proportion or grace of any kind to their designs . Then arose new architects , and they , after the manner of their barbarous nations , erected the buildings in that style which we now call Gothic , and raising ...
... give either cor- rect proportion or grace of any kind to their designs . Then arose new architects , and they , after the manner of their barbarous nations , erected the buildings in that style which we now call Gothic , and raising ...
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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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