Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... preserved even to our own days by Pliny , and other writers ; but for whose pens that memory must have been buried in eternal oblivion , as is the case with so many others . And perhaps this consideration also may increase our desire to ...
... preserved even to our own days by Pliny , and other writers ; but for whose pens that memory must have been buried in eternal oblivion , as is the case with so many others . And perhaps this consideration also may increase our desire to ...
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... preserved , and which he afterwards caused to be carried in triumph and with great pomp to Rome . And in course of time , when Rome , having well - nigh despoiled the whole world , had assembled the artists themselves , as well as their ...
... preserved , and which he afterwards caused to be carried in triumph and with great pomp to Rome . And in course of time , when Rome , having well - nigh despoiled the whole world , had assembled the artists themselves , as well as their ...
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... preserve the memory of persons and events preceding their own times , they could say nothing of those concerning whom no facts had descended to them ; so that the first artists , in their enumeration , would necessarily be those whose ...
... preserve the memory of persons and events preceding their own times , they could say nothing of those concerning whom no facts had descended to them ; so that the first artists , in their enumeration , would necessarily be those whose ...
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... preserved in likenesses cut in wood . But enough ; the labour , expense , and industry , which I have bestowed in this matter will be manifest to all those who , Ꭰ while reading it , shall perceive whence I have , INTRODUCTION TO THE ...
... preserved in likenesses cut in wood . But enough ; the labour , expense , and industry , which I have bestowed in this matter will be manifest to all those who , Ꭰ while reading it , shall perceive whence I have , INTRODUCTION TO THE ...
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... preservation , in the chapel of St. Francis , in the church of Santa Croce . Lanzi does not consider it to be the work of Cimabue . History of Painting . See § Here we are not to understand that Cimabue painted from the saint himself ...
... preservation , in the chapel of St. Francis , in the church of Santa Croce . Lanzi does not consider it to be the work of Cimabue . History of Painting . See § Here we are not to understand that Cimabue painted from the saint himself ...
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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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