Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... statues , with so many wondrous edifices of every kind , should be erected and executed by those in your service , and to your eternal and ever - during memory . But if we are all indebted to you for these and other causes , as we all ...
... statues , with so many wondrous edifices of every kind , should be erected and executed by those in your service , and to your eternal and ever - during memory . But if we are all indebted to you for these and other causes , as we all ...
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... statues and relievi , to the Chaldeans , while they accord the invention of the pencil , and of colouring , to the Greeks . But I am myself convinced , that design , which is the foun- dation of both these arts , nay , rather the very ...
... statues and relievi , to the Chaldeans , while they accord the invention of the pencil , and of colouring , to the Greeks . But I am myself convinced , that design , which is the foun- dation of both these arts , nay , rather the very ...
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... statue to be made , which , at a later period , gave birth to idolatry . His re- nowned daughter - in - law ... statues of herself and of her husband Ninus , with figures in bronze , repre- senting her father - in - law , her mother - in ...
... statue to be made , which , at a later period , gave birth to idolatry . His re- nowned daughter - in - law ... statues of herself and of her husband Ninus , with figures in bronze , repre- senting her father - in - law , her mother - in ...
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... statues of all those to whom they desired to attribute immortal fame ; and the Greeks , who account for the origin of art in various methods , declare , according to Diodorus , that the Ethiopians constructed the first statues ...
... statues of all those to whom they desired to attribute immortal fame ; and the Greeks , who account for the origin of art in various methods , declare , according to Diodorus , that the Ethiopians constructed the first statues ...
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... statue of a virgin which he had formed . Painting was in like manner honoured , and those who practised it success- fully were rewarded among the ancient Greeks and Romans ; this is proved by their according the rights of citizenship ...
... statue of a virgin which he had formed . Painting was in like manner honoured , and those who practised it success- fully were rewarded among the ancient Greeks and Romans ; this is proved by their according the rights of citizenship ...
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