The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 1Harper, 1846 |
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... quainted with arts and arms ; and his savage suc- cessors , the Saxons , added to unextinguishable fero- city a love of splendour and a rude sense of beauty , still visible in the churches which they built , and EARLY ART IN ENGLAND . 15.
... quainted with arts and arms ; and his savage suc- cessors , the Saxons , added to unextinguishable fero- city a love of splendour and a rude sense of beauty , still visible in the churches which they built , and EARLY ART IN ENGLAND . 15.
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... splendour distinguished the court ; the country became rich as well as powerful , and the martial barbarism of the preceding reigns was sobered down into something like elegance . The ladies laid aside those formidable pyramids which ...
... splendour distinguished the court ; the country became rich as well as powerful , and the martial barbarism of the preceding reigns was sobered down into something like elegance . The ladies laid aside those formidable pyramids which ...
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... splendour ; mankind wanted the taste to use their wealth wisely , and knew no way to esti- mate excellence save by price . The quantities of silver and gold , precious stones , and expensive co- lours , employed in works of art , were ...
... splendour ; mankind wanted the taste to use their wealth wisely , and knew no way to esti- mate excellence save by price . The quantities of silver and gold , precious stones , and expensive co- lours , employed in works of art , were ...
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... splendour of foreign courts , and , if money could have accomplished it , he would have surpassed Charles V. and Francis I. in glory . He opened his treasury , and scattered his father's hoards with no sparing hand . Foreign artists ...
... splendour of foreign courts , and , if money could have accomplished it , he would have surpassed Charles V. and Francis I. in glory . He opened his treasury , and scattered his father's hoards with no sparing hand . Foreign artists ...
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... splendour , " exclaimed the king ( this was his customary oath ) , 66 you have not to do with Hans but with me . Of seven peasants I can make seven lords , but I cannot make one Hans Holbein . " The works of Holbein were once very ...
... splendour , " exclaimed the king ( this was his customary oath ) , 66 you have not to do with Hans but with me . Of seven peasants I can make seven lords , but I cannot make one Hans Holbein . " The works of Holbein were once very ...
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Academy admiration afterward Allan Ramsay appeared artist beauty Burke character church colouring composition copy Correggio court drawing elegance eminent employed England engraving excellence exhibition fame favourite feeling figures folly fortune friends Gainsborough gallery Garrick genius grace guineas hand happy Harlot's Progress Hogarth honour humour imagination John Gonson Johnson Kate Hackabout kind king Kneller labour ladies landscape Line of Beauty living London look Lord loved manner masters merit mind nature never Nichols noble North Briton Northcote observed obtained painted painter Paul Veronese pencil person poet portrait portrait-painting prints productions purchased racter Rake's Progress Raphael reputation Reynolds Rome royal Rubens satire says scene seems Sigismunda Sir Joshua Sir Richard Grosvenor sketches skill spirit splendour style talents taste Thicknesse thing Thornhill thought tion Titian truth ture Vandyke vanity Walpole Wilkes William Hogarth Wilson wish worthy