Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and ArchitectsGeorge Bell and Sons, 1855 |
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Page 27
... gives us clear proof that the Tuscan architects here made efforts to imitate the fine pro- portions and pure taste of the antique in columns , arches , cornices , doors , and windows , correcting and improving their perceptions by the ...
... gives us clear proof that the Tuscan architects here made efforts to imitate the fine pro- portions and pure taste of the antique in columns , arches , cornices , doors , and windows , correcting and improving their perceptions by the ...
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... give the first light to the art of painting . This youth , as he grew up , being considered by his father and others to give proof of an acute judgment and a clear understanding , was sent to Santa Maria Novella to study letters under a ...
... give the first light to the art of painting . This youth , as he grew up , being considered by his father and others to give proof of an acute judgment and a clear understanding , was sent to Santa Maria Novella to study letters under a ...
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... give place to that work of Alexis Baldovinetti , * which remains there to this day , it was placed in a smaller chapel of the south aisle of the same church . Cimabue next painted in fresco at the hospital of the Porcellana , † at the ...
... give place to that work of Alexis Baldovinetti , * which remains there to this day , it was placed in a smaller chapel of the south aisle of the same church . Cimabue next painted in fresco at the hospital of the Porcellana , † at the ...
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... gives 1240 as the year of Cimabue's birth , the latter must then have been but twenty - six years old , although he had already completed so many great works . The doubtful character of this anecdote is manifest ; but the painting is ...
... gives 1240 as the year of Cimabue's birth , the latter must then have been but twenty - six years old , although he had already completed so many great works . The doubtful character of this anecdote is manifest ; but the painting is ...
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... give his head in profile . The soldier in armour , standing between them , is supposed to be Count Guido Novelli , then Signore of Poppi . Of Cimabue there remains still to say , that , in the commencement of a book wherein I have ...
... give his head in profile . The soldier in armour , standing between them , is supposed to be Count Guido Novelli , then Signore of Poppi . Of Cimabue there remains still to say , that , in the commencement of a book wherein I have ...
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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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