Distinguished Men of Modern Times, Volume 1C. Knight, 1838 - Biography |
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... picture , is wholly unequalled . It is true , however , that his constant solicitude for conciseness and effect led him , sometimes , into a harsh and barbarous phraseology , and into the most unre- strained innovations ; but ...
... picture , is wholly unequalled . It is true , however , that his constant solicitude for conciseness and effect led him , sometimes , into a harsh and barbarous phraseology , and into the most unre- strained innovations ; but ...
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... pictures of him - that from which our print is engraved , and that at King's College , Cambridge , engraved in ' Rolt's Lives of the Reformers , ' and Verheiden , ' Præstantium Theologorum Effigies , & c . , ' 1602 . 1 7186 1 roits 30 ...
... pictures of him - that from which our print is engraved , and that at King's College , Cambridge , engraved in ' Rolt's Lives of the Reformers , ' and Verheiden , ' Præstantium Theologorum Effigies , & c . , ' 1602 . 1 7186 1 roits 30 ...
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... picture of former prosperity , he contrasts his present state . For riches now have I poverty ; instead of power , wretchedness I suffer ; and for glory of renown , I am now despised and foully hated . " We cannot with certainty connect ...
... picture of former prosperity , he contrasts his present state . For riches now have I poverty ; instead of power , wretchedness I suffer ; and for glory of renown , I am now despised and foully hated . " We cannot with certainty connect ...
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... of his age , was occasionally a designer and painter . Vasari relates , that Verocchio being occupied on a picture of the Baptism of Christ , Lionardo was per- mitted to paint an accessory figure of an angel in LIONARDO DA VINCI . 103.
... of his age , was occasionally a designer and painter . Vasari relates , that Verocchio being occupied on a picture of the Baptism of Christ , Lionardo was per- mitted to paint an accessory figure of an angel in LIONARDO DA VINCI . 103.
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... pictures , and which had hitherto been wanting in the art . To this period of Lionardo's life belong the Medusa's head , now in the Florence gallery ; the cartoon of Adam and Eve ; a Madonna , once in the Borghese palace in Rome , known ...
... pictures , and which had hitherto been wanting in the art . To this period of Lionardo's life belong the Medusa's head , now in the Florence gallery ; the cartoon of Adam and Eve ; a Madonna , once in the Borghese palace in Rome , known ...
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