An Elementary History of Art: Architecture, Sculpture, PaintingS. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882 - 672 páginas |
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Página 129 - Deluge, and important acts of the Patriarchs. Companions to these on the north side are altorelievos of the principal circumstances in the life of our Saviour. Above these are two rows of statues larger than nature...
Página 537 - The reconciliation was sincere. Hogarth was ever the earnest admirer and the ready defender of the conduct and reputation of Sir James Thornhill. The artist has told with the pen the reasons which induced him to " turn his thoughts to painting and engraving subjects of a modern kind and moral nature — a field not broken up in any country or age.
Página 239 - ... their disobedience in tasting the forbidden fruit, and their expulsion from Paradise; amounting in all to a great number of figures. Among his other works may be mentioned the admirable bronze relief in the Duomo at Florence, representing San )Zenobi bringing a dead child to life, and the three bronze statues of St. John the Baptist, St. Matthew, and St. Stephen, at the church of Or San Michele in the same city.
Página 59 - ... daily life of men of various classes of society. He was living as late as 1014, when he wrote a pastoral letter, or a portion of one, for Archbishop Wulfstan. Other Wulfstan himself has been reckoned among English authors on the strength of a collection of fifty-three homilies composed or translated about the end of the tenth or beginning of the eleventh century, and edited by Professor Napier.
Página 346 - ... by applying the newly discovered laws of perspective, the study of the nude, and the individual character of the heads are inspired by the incoming Renaissance. The paintings are well preserved and constitute one of the finest monuments of Florentine Art of that time. Between 1424 and 1426 he worked in the Brancacci chapel, in the church of the Carmine at Florence. As Masaccio and, somewhat later, Filippino Lippi also painted in this chapel, the discussion as to what particular share was done...
Página 80 - The portions still standing are ranged round two oblong courts, one called the Court of the Fish-pond, the other the Court of the Lions.
Página 405 - ... an application which has not only brought distant towns upon the same island or continent within the means of instantaneous communication with each other, but which has spanned the seas, and placed an insular metropolis like London within momentary reach of the distant capitals of the continent. It would be impossible in a work like the present, to give even a sketch of the numberless modifications and improvements in the apparatus which have been suggested or practised for carrying out telegraphic...
Página 92 - Firdawsi's first appearance at the Court of Ghazna ; but, as already remarked in a note, no trace of it is to be found in the oldest accounts (dating from the middle of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries respectively) which we possess of the poet's life, and Professor Noldeke is undoubtedly right in rejecting it as purely fictitious. Here, indeed, we suffer not from the usual dearth of biographical details, but from an embarrassing wealth of circumstantial narratives, of which...
Página 540 - The Royal Academy was planned and proposed in 1768 by Chambers, West, Cotes, and Moser ; the caution or timidity of Reynolds kept him for some time from assisting. A list of thirty members was made out ; and West, a prudent and amiable man, called on Reynolds, and, in a conference of two hours' continuance, succeeded in persuading him to join them.
Página 537 - Cleyn (d. 1658), and it is related that Van Dyck having seen in a shop window a picture by Dobson, took him into his studio and introduced him to Charles I. After the death of Van Dyck, Dobson held the posts of Serjeant painter, and of groom of the privy chamber, and in this office he accompanied the Court to Oxford, where he painted the Portrait of the King. Dobson's works are found in many of the best galleries of the English nobility.