The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... master . The principal are , the equestrian statue of Constantine , the choir of St. Peter , the group of Apollo and Daphne in the Villa Pinciana , and the church of St. Andrew at Rome , which was constructed after his designs . Bernini ...
... master . The principal are , the equestrian statue of Constantine , the choir of St. Peter , the group of Apollo and Daphne in the Villa Pinciana , and the church of St. Andrew at Rome , which was constructed after his designs . Bernini ...
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... master of fraud and dissimulation , he judged it superfluous to employ any disguise in conducting this bold enterprize . With every mark of contempt and disgust , he annihilated that famous assembly which had filled all Europe with the ...
... master of fraud and dissimulation , he judged it superfluous to employ any disguise in conducting this bold enterprize . With every mark of contempt and disgust , he annihilated that famous assembly which had filled all Europe with the ...
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... master . He was desirous only of repelling the passions ; the other undertook to destroy them . The learned author of the " Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis , " has thus analyzed the philosophy of Diogenes . " The sage , to be happy in his ...
... master . He was desirous only of repelling the passions ; the other undertook to destroy them . The learned author of the " Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis , " has thus analyzed the philosophy of Diogenes . " The sage , to be happy in his ...
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... Master . " A person named Xeniades stepping forward to make the purchase , asked him what he could do ? " I can command man , " was his reply . When Xeniades had bought him , he said to him , " Now that you are my master , be prepared ...
... Master . " A person named Xeniades stepping forward to make the purchase , asked him what he could do ? " I can command man , " was his reply . When Xeniades had bought him , he said to him , " Now that you are my master , be prepared ...
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... master , he , in fact , took plea- sure in displaying the new manner of Guido . From a spirit of resentment , Caravaggio treated him with marked indifference , which hastened , it is imagined , his return to Bologna . But his fame ...
... master , he , in fact , took plea- sure in displaying the new manner of Guido . From a spirit of resentment , Caravaggio treated him with marked indifference , which hastened , it is imagined , his return to Bologna . But his fame ...
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