The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... eminent for her skill in the Greek and Latin languages . Under such illustrious guides , his na- tural talent could not fail of being improved by all the advantages which parental fondness and a learned eduENGLAND . ] BACON . cation ...
... eminent for her skill in the Greek and Latin languages . Under such illustrious guides , his na- tural talent could not fail of being improved by all the advantages which parental fondness and a learned eduENGLAND . ] BACON . cation ...
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... eminent and singular personages that occurs in history ; the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked as the schemes of his conduct were , during the time , dark and impenetrable . His extensive capacity enabled him to ...
... eminent and singular personages that occurs in history ; the strokes of his character are as open and strongly marked as the schemes of his conduct were , during the time , dark and impenetrable . His extensive capacity enabled him to ...
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... eminent mas- ters , who held him in great esteem , he for a time care- fully studied ; but these illustrious artists , becoming jea- lous of his success , he was induced to adopt the manner of Caravaggio , which , at the instigation of ...
... eminent mas- ters , who held him in great esteem , he for a time care- fully studied ; but these illustrious artists , becoming jea- lous of his success , he was induced to adopt the manner of Caravaggio , which , at the instigation of ...
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... eminence ! Some have possessed sufficient gaiety , others have been good poets , many have delineated manners with considerable facility and skill ; but the art of Moliére was the accurate knowledge of the human mind : this was the path ...
... eminence ! Some have possessed sufficient gaiety , others have been good poets , many have delineated manners with considerable facility and skill ; but the art of Moliére was the accurate knowledge of the human mind : this was the path ...
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... eminent painters who had been already employed by the pope.- Bramante , who had probably discovered the great genius which his nephew possessed , conciliated in his favour the suffrages of the nobles ; and Raphael was received in the ...
... eminent painters who had been already employed by the pope.- Bramante , who had probably discovered the great genius which his nephew possessed , conciliated in his favour the suffrages of the nobles ; and Raphael was received in the ...
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