Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ArchitectsGeorge Bell and Sons, 1855 |
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... grounds . * * For a more complete dissertation on the subjects here only touched upon by Vasari , see Rumohr , Italienische Forschungen , I. i . The rise of art in Rome must have taken place 16 INTRODUCTION TO THE LIVES .
... grounds . * * For a more complete dissertation on the subjects here only touched upon by Vasari , see Rumohr , Italienische Forschungen , I. i . The rise of art in Rome must have taken place 16 INTRODUCTION TO THE LIVES .
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... Rome under Constantine , bear ample tes- timony , more particularly the triumphal arch , raised to him by the Roman people , near the Colosseum , where we perceive that , for the want of good masters , they not only availed them- selves ...
... Rome under Constantine , bear ample tes- timony , more particularly the triumphal arch , raised to him by the Roman people , near the Colosseum , where we perceive that , for the want of good masters , they not only availed them- selves ...
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... 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 e Pitture ...
... 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 e Pitture ...
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... Rome , when he resolved to transfer the seat of empire to Byzantium ; for he then not only took all the best sculptors , and other artists of the time , whatever they may have been , with him into Greece , but he also despoiled the city ...
... Rome , when he resolved to transfer the seat of empire to Byzantium ; for he then not only took all the best sculptors , and other artists of the time , whatever they may have been , with him into Greece , but he also despoiled the city ...
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... Rome herself , when all the best artists , * This church , called the Duomo Vecchio , was not built in the time of Julian the apostate , -- that is , the fourth century , -but in the eleventh , by Alberto , Bishop of Arezzo . It was ...
... Rome herself , when all the best artists , * This church , called the Duomo Vecchio , was not built in the time of Julian the apostate , -- that is , the fourth century , -but in the eleventh , by Alberto , Bishop of Arezzo . It was ...
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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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