Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ArchitectsGeorge Bell and Sons, 1855 |
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... labours in this book , might be of no small advantage to those who study the arts , and would gratify all others who have taste for , and pleasure in them . And I have laboured to execute the whole with that accuracy and good faith ...
... labours in this book , might be of no small advantage to those who study the arts , and would gratify all others who have taste for , and pleasure in them . And I have laboured to execute the whole with that accuracy and good faith ...
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... labour appear to have been unwelcome ; on the contrary , it has been so well accepted , that , besides the many ... labours , ( although occupied in most important undertakings ) with the intention , not only of adding the names of ...
... labour appear to have been unwelcome ; on the contrary , it has been so well accepted , that , besides the many ... labours , ( although occupied in most important undertakings ) with the intention , not only of adding the names of ...
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... labour , cost , or pains appeared to me too great for the better restoration of the memory of those whom I so greatly honour , or for the discovering of their portraits , and the procuring them , to place before their lives . And , for ...
... labour , cost , or pains appeared to me too great for the better restoration of the memory of those whom I so greatly honour , or for the discovering of their portraits , and the procuring them , to place before their lives . And , for ...
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... labours , it may place us on that eminence which it has maintained those ever admirable and most celebrated spirits . Accept these my labours , therefore , with a friendly mind ; what- soever they may be , I have anxiously conducted the ...
... labours , it may place us on that eminence which it has maintained those ever admirable and most celebrated spirits . Accept these my labours , therefore , with a friendly mind ; what- soever they may be , I have anxiously conducted the ...
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... laboured with great zeal in these arts , as is proved by the wondrous sepulchre of that ancient monarch , Osimandyas , described at length by Diodorus , and , as may be clearly in- ferred from the severe law enacted by Moses at the ...
... laboured with great zeal in these arts , as is proved by the wondrous sepulchre of that ancient monarch , Osimandyas , described at length by Diodorus , and , as may be clearly in- ferred from the severe law enacted by Moses at the ...
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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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