The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General LiteratureWerner Company, 1895 |
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Page 42
... seems to be descended from Titian and in colouring from Giulio Romano . Equally with this picture the Transfiguration , now in the museum at Nancy , and the portraits of Vincenzo and his consort , kneeling before the Trinity , in the ...
... seems to be descended from Titian and in colouring from Giulio Romano . Equally with this picture the Transfiguration , now in the museum at Nancy , and the portraits of Vincenzo and his consort , kneeling before the Trinity , in the ...
Page 44
... seems consistent with his prodigious facility in execution . The Massacre of the Innocents , in the Munich Gallery , is a composition that can leave no person unmoved , -mothers defending their children with nails and teeth . If Mrs ...
... seems consistent with his prodigious facility in execution . The Massacre of the Innocents , in the Munich Gallery , is a composition that can leave no person unmoved , -mothers defending their children with nails and teeth . If Mrs ...
Page 54
... seems to have been particularly struck by the extraordinary peculiarities of the species , and , to investigate them , expressly visited the fens of Lincolnshire , possibly excited thereto by the example of Pennant , whose Information ...
... seems to have been particularly struck by the extraordinary peculiarities of the species , and , to investigate them , expressly visited the fens of Lincolnshire , possibly excited thereto by the example of Pennant , whose Information ...
Page 55
... seems as if he were afraid of coming too near his mistress . If she flies off , he starts up in an instant to arrive before her at the next place of alighting , and all his actions are full of life and spirit . But none of his spirit is ...
... seems as if he were afraid of coming too near his mistress . If she flies off , he starts up in an instant to arrive before her at the next place of alighting , and all his actions are full of life and spirit . But none of his spirit is ...
Page 63
... seems to have commenced attendance at the courts , especially the Star Chamber and the Exchequer Chamber , not for the purpose of practising his profession , but in order that he might observe and record the more remarkable of their ...
... seems to have commenced attendance at the courts , especially the Star Chamber and the Exchequer Chamber , not for the purpose of practising his profession , but in order that he might observe and record the more remarkable of their ...
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