Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ArchitectsGeorge Bell and Sons, 1855 |
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... destroyed by the hands of this most wicked Greek . No trace , no vestige of excellence in art , now remained ; the men who followed immediately on these unhappy times , proceeded in a rude and uncultivated manner in all things , but ...
... destroyed by the hands of this most wicked Greek . No trace , no vestige of excellence in art , now remained ; the men who followed immediately on these unhappy times , proceeded in a rude and uncultivated manner in all things , but ...
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... destroyed by the fires and other devastations ; yet they had not known how to avail them- selves of this aid , nor had they derived any benefit from it , until the time specified above . When the minds then awakened , becoming capable ...
... destroyed by the fires and other devastations ; yet they had not known how to avail them- selves of this aid , nor had they derived any benefit from it , until the time specified above . When the minds then awakened , becoming capable ...
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... destroyed whatever could properly be called buildings , but , a still more deplorable consequence , had totally exterminated the artists themselves , * when , by the will of God , in the year 1240 , Giovanni Cimabue , of the noble ...
... destroyed whatever could properly be called buildings , but , a still more deplorable consequence , had totally exterminated the artists themselves , * when , by the will of God , in the year 1240 , Giovanni Cimabue , of the noble ...
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... . † So called from a prefect of that name , who governed the Hospital in the fourteenth century . It is almost needless to say that this painting is destroyed . Croce , and he now painted for him a colossal CIMABUE . 37.
... . † So called from a prefect of that name , who governed the Hospital in the fourteenth century . It is almost needless to say that this painting is destroyed . Croce , and he now painted for him a colossal CIMABUE . 37.
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... San Frances D'Assisi . See Ital . Forsch . , vol . ii , sec . 8 . These paintings of Cimabue , as well as those of the other maste are entirely destroyed . that place . * He afterwards painted the picture of 40 LIVES OF THE ARTISTS .
... San Frances D'Assisi . See Ital . Forsch . , vol . ii , sec . 8 . These paintings of Cimabue , as well as those of the other maste are entirely destroyed . that place . * He afterwards painted the picture of 40 LIVES OF THE ARTISTS .
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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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