The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 4T. Boys, 1826 |
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... sculptor of Greece , the Athenians spoke with a rapture which knew no bounds . Lucian says , " We adore Phidias in his works , and he partakes of the incense we offer to the gods he has made . " Pausanias relates , that when this artist ...
... sculptor of Greece , the Athenians spoke with a rapture which knew no bounds . Lucian says , " We adore Phidias in his works , and he partakes of the incense we offer to the gods he has made . " Pausanias relates , that when this artist ...
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... sculptor , whom among his predecessors he should make the objects of his imitation ? Behold , " said the painter , showing his friend a multitude of charac- ters passing by , " behold my models . From nature , not from art , by ...
... sculptor , whom among his predecessors he should make the objects of his imitation ? Behold , " said the painter , showing his friend a multitude of charac- ters passing by , " behold my models . From nature , not from art , by ...
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... sculptor of some of the most famous statues of antiquity . Among these were two Venuses , one clothed and the other naked . The first was purchased by the Khoans , who preferred it as the most decent . The Cnidians took the rejected one ...
... sculptor of some of the most famous statues of antiquity . Among these were two Venuses , one clothed and the other naked . The first was purchased by the Khoans , who preferred it as the most decent . The Cnidians took the rejected one ...
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... sculptor , painter , and architect . As a painter , it was not at first his intention , it is said to have entered the lists ; and he wished to have transferred a commission offered him in the Sistine Chapel , to the hands of Raffael ...
... sculptor , painter , and architect . As a painter , it was not at first his intention , it is said to have entered the lists ; and he wished to have transferred a commission offered him in the Sistine Chapel , to the hands of Raffael ...
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... year 1522. This eminent sculptor had undertaken to carve a Madona and Child of the na- tural size , for a Spanish grandee ; it was to be made after the model of one which he had already executed ; E 3 THE FINE ARTS . 41 ...
... year 1522. This eminent sculptor had undertaken to carve a Madona and Child of the na- tural size , for a Spanish grandee ; it was to be made after the model of one which he had already executed ; E 3 THE FINE ARTS . 41 ...
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