Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Volume 1Henry G. Bohn, 1855 |
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... wall with a piece of charcoal ; and from that time , it was customary , as Pliny further says , to draw in outline only without colour , a method afterwards re - discovered , by less simple means , by Philocles , the Egyptian , as also ...
... wall with a piece of charcoal ; and from that time , it was customary , as Pliny further says , to draw in outline only without colour , a method afterwards re - discovered , by less simple means , by Philocles , the Egyptian , as also ...
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... walls , she was by this means rendered supereminently beautiful , deriving a much richer portion of her ornaments from foreign paintings and statues , than from those of native production . As , for example , from Rhodes , the capital ...
... walls , she was by this means rendered supereminently beautiful , deriving a much richer portion of her ornaments from foreign paintings and statues , than from those of native production . As , for example , from Rhodes , the capital ...
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... walls of the labyrinth , on which were figures in mezzo - relievo , so admirably executed , and in so good a manner , that all might perceive the arts to be far from their first attempts when these were formed ; nay , rather , from the ...
... walls of the labyrinth , on which were figures in mezzo - relievo , so admirably executed , and in so good a manner , that all might perceive the arts to be far from their first attempts when these were formed ; nay , rather , from the ...
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... walls of Rome , and of St. Agnes , erected by the same emperor at the request of Constantia , his daughter . * And who is now ignorant of the fact that the * This tradition has been set aside by Bottari , in vol . iii of his Scul- ture ...
... walls of Rome , and of St. Agnes , erected by the same emperor at the request of Constantia , his daughter . * And who is now ignorant of the fact that the * This tradition has been set aside by Bottari , in vol . iii of his Scul- ture ...
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... walls of Arezzo , * in honour of St. Donatus , bishop of that city , who suffered martyrdom , together with the monk Hila- rin , under this Julian the Apostate , was in no respect of better architecture than those before mentioned . Nor ...
... walls of Arezzo , * in honour of St. Donatus , bishop of that city , who suffered martyrdom , together with the monk Hila- rin , under this Julian the Apostate , was in no respect of better architecture than those before mentioned . Nor ...
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