A Long Vacation in Continental Picture GalleriesJohn W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1858 - 224 oldal |
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admirable Adoration Albert Durer Andrea del Sarto Angelico angels Annibale Caracci Annunciation Antony Apostles Bartolomeo beauty Bishop Bohn Bronzino Cabinet Carlo Dolce Catharine centre cherubs Christ Church colour conception copy Correggio Cross Crucifixion Domenichino drapery drawing face figures finished flesh-tints Florence Florentine Fra Angelico Fra Bartolomeo Francis fresco gallery Garofalo Gerard Dow Gian Bellini Giorgione grand Guercino Guido head Holbein Holy Family Infant Saviour Jerome John the Baptist Joseph kneeling Lady Landscape left hand Lemonnier Leonardo Lippi Lord Lord's Lorenzo Ludovico Caracci Luini Madonna and Child Magdalen Magi magnificent Martyrdom of St Michael Angelo Mieris Murillo painted painter Palma Vecchio Palmarola Paris Bordone Paul Veronese perhaps Perugino Peter picture Pietà Pietro Portrait Raffael Rembrandt restored Rubens Saints Salvator Rosa School Second Room side Sir Joshua Sketch stiff style Tintoretto Titian Vandyck Vasari Venetian Venice Venus Virgin and Child Vittore Carpaccio whole wife Woman
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222. oldal - Varronianus ; a Critical and Historical Introduction to the Study of the Latin Language. By JW DONALDSON, DD 14s. The New Cratylus; Contributions towards a more accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language.
224. oldal - BECKER'S GALLUS ; or, Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus : with Notes and Excursuses illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Romans.
6. oldal - Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs...
12. oldal - Rubens left it, it must have appeared very different ; but it is mortifying to see to what degree it has suffered by cleaning and mending: that brilliant effect, which it undoubtedly once had, is lost in a mist of varnish, which appears to be chilled or mildewed.
13. oldal - The great altar of the choir, is the first public work which Rubens executed after he returned from Italy. In the centre is Christ nailed to the Cross, with a number of figures exerting themselves in different ways to raise it. One of the figures appears flushed, all the blood rising into his face from his violent efforts; others in intricate attitudes, which, at the same time that they show the great energy with which the business is done, give that opportunity which painters desire, of encountering...
129. oldal - Bacchus, young Bacchus ! good or ill betide, We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide: — Come hither, lady fair, and joined be To our wild minstrelsy ! ' Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs!
14. oldal - Rubens with himself; they might be thought excellent even in this respect, were they the work of almost any other painter. The flesh, as well as the rest of the picture, seems to want grey tints, which is not a general defect of Rubens ; on the contrary, his mezzotints are often too grey. The blue drapery, about the middle of the figure at the bottom of the Cross, and the grey colour of some armour, are nearly all the cold colours in the picture ; which are certainly not enough to qualify so large...
7. oldal - The genius of Rubens no where appears to more advantage than here: it is the most carefully finished picture of all his works. The whole is conducted with the most consummate art; the composition is bold and uncommon, with circumstances which no other painter had ever before thought of; such as the breaking of the limbs, and the expression of the Magdalen, to which we may add the disposition of the three crosses, which are placed prospectively in an uncommon picturesque manner...