The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 3J. & J. Harper, 1835 |
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... site paintings from the pencils of the first masters . The quantity of ornament is immense , but the qua- lity is equally wonderful . One of the vases thus pendent among birds and flowers is of an antique fashion GIBBONS . 15.
... site paintings from the pencils of the first masters . The quantity of ornament is immense , but the qua- lity is equally wonderful . One of the vases thus pendent among birds and flowers is of an antique fashion GIBBONS . 15.
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... antique vases . At his death his collection - and it was not inconsiderable — of pictures , and models , and patterns , was dispersed by auction . “ Among other things , " says Walpole , " were two chimney- pieces of his own work , the ...
... antique vases . At his death his collection - and it was not inconsiderable — of pictures , and models , and patterns , was dispersed by auction . “ Among other things , " says Walpole , " were two chimney- pieces of his own work , the ...
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... antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to ...
... antique groups and statues and busts , and exhibited them publicly : travellers multiplied splendid accounts of the Italian galleries , and every poet's verse bore a burden of goddesses and gods . The nation , in truth , had feasted to ...
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... cold and hard ; many of the antique statues have never- theless been finished till the gloss of the polish began to appear , and Canova himself revived this ancient practice with good effect . With all his en- ROUBILIAC . 45.
... cold and hard ; many of the antique statues have never- theless been finished till the gloss of the polish began to appear , and Canova himself revived this ancient practice with good effect . With all his en- ROUBILIAC . 45.
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... antique . It happened , on the other hand , that the god of Roubiliac was Bernini ; but who in truth could have expected that a sculptor , with fifty years and no trivial share of fame on his head , would put himself through a course of ...
... antique . It happened , on the other hand , that the god of Roubiliac was Bernini ; but who in truth could have expected that a sculptor , with fifty years and no trivial share of fame on his head , would put himself through a course of ...
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Achilles admiration Alexander Johnston allegory ancient angels antique appeared artist Bacon Banks beauty bust bust sculpture carved character Chatsworth chisel Church Cibber clay Damer daughter designs dignity divine drapery drawings Duke Edward Walpole elegance Elgin marbles eminent executed exhibited fame father favourite feeling figures Flaxman gallery gave genius Gibbons Gothic grace Greece groups guineas hand head hero Hesiod Homer honour Horace Walpole imagined imbody Italy John Flaxman Joseph Nollekens labour lady living look Lord Lord Castlereagh loved magnificent marble ment merit Michael Angelo mind monu monument nature never noble Nollekens painter painting pedestal person Phidias plaster pleased poet poetic poetry portrait pounds praise Rome Roubiliac Royal Academy says Smith sculp sculptor seems sentiment simplicity sketches skilful skill spirit splendid statue talents taste thing thought thousand guineas tion ture Venus Walpole Westminster Abbey wife Wilton workmanship