The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 2Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... picture was painted , as well as others that embel- lish this publication , for the ceiling of a cabinet of the Hotel Lambert , at Paris . The figures are in proportion about three feet . コ RARY STOR LI ) T SF . BACON . THE BIRTH OF LOVE .
... picture was painted , as well as others that embel- lish this publication , for the ceiling of a cabinet of the Hotel Lambert , at Paris . The figures are in proportion about three feet . コ RARY STOR LI ) T SF . BACON . THE BIRTH OF LOVE .
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... picture a young man , animated by the valour which a lively and tender passion inspires , braving the billows on a majestic swan , surrounded by the Nereļdes , tritons , and sea monsters , who frolic beside his vessel . " It is im ...
... picture a young man , animated by the valour which a lively and tender passion inspires , braving the billows on a majestic swan , surrounded by the Nereļdes , tritons , and sea monsters , who frolic beside his vessel . " It is im ...
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... pictures of Poussin , the engravings after that master , and those of Pietro Testa , we cannot deny the superiority of his genius . Happy in his compositions , he finished them always with much delicacy and freedom of pencil . Every ...
... pictures of Poussin , the engravings after that master , and those of Pietro Testa , we cannot deny the superiority of his genius . Happy in his compositions , he finished them always with much delicacy and freedom of pencil . Every ...
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... picture of the rapid aggran- dizement and progressive decline which the history of the Roman empire presented ; but , like a skilful archi- tect , who , from a heap of ruins , may trace the plan of an ancient edifice , he supplied by ...
... picture of the rapid aggran- dizement and progressive decline which the history of the Roman empire presented ; but , like a skilful archi- tect , who , from a heap of ruins , may trace the plan of an ancient edifice , he supplied by ...
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... picture is the production of Raphael ; he is , perhaps , the only master with whom they are acquainted ; and it must be confessed , that to those who are ambitious of any kind of glory , the voice of the people is not so unimportant a ...
... picture is the production of Raphael ; he is , perhaps , the only master with whom they are acquainted ; and it must be confessed , that to those who are ambitious of any kind of glory , the voice of the people is not so unimportant a ...
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