Treatise on the knowledge necessary to amateurs in pictures, tr. and abridged by R. WhiteLongman & Company, 1845 - 338 pages |
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Page 96
... John , naked also , seems desirous to awake Jesus , as he is about to present him with a wreath ; but Joseph , who is behind the Virgin , makes a sign to him with his finger , to prevent his making any noise . This circumstance has ...
... John , naked also , seems desirous to awake Jesus , as he is about to present him with a wreath ; but Joseph , who is behind the Virgin , makes a sign to him with his finger , to prevent his making any noise . This circumstance has ...
Page 97
... John Wils , and John Baptiste Weenix . A Landscape , very capital ( important ) , and very sparkling in effect . There are seen in the foreground two cows , two goats , and two sheep . Upon the second plane , at the foot of a tree ...
... John Wils , and John Baptiste Weenix . A Landscape , very capital ( important ) , and very sparkling in effect . There are seen in the foreground two cows , two goats , and two sheep . Upon the second plane , at the foot of a tree ...
Page 111
... John at Bologna , representing St. Cecilia holding a musical instrument in her hands , with others at her feet , affords an example of the errors alluded to . She listens with rapt attention to a choir of angels borne on the clouds and ...
... John at Bologna , representing St. Cecilia holding a musical instrument in her hands , with others at her feet , affords an example of the errors alluded to . She listens with rapt attention to a choir of angels borne on the clouds and ...
Page 116
... John Van Eyck of Maseyck , Italy owes painting in water colours to the Florentines . These , in 1240 , brought among them some Greeks , very coarse painters , or rather daubers of images of devotion , whose shapeless productions were ...
... John Van Eyck of Maseyck , Italy owes painting in water colours to the Florentines . These , in 1240 , brought among them some Greeks , very coarse painters , or rather daubers of images of devotion , whose shapeless productions were ...
Page 121
... John and St. Paul at Venice , is distinguished indeed among the works of Titian by its extent . But if we except the two angels in the air , and some small figures in the dis- tance , there are but three figures besides in the whole ...
... John and St. Paul at Venice , is distinguished indeed among the works of Titian by its extent . But if we except the two angels in the air , and some small figures in the dis- tance , there are but three figures besides in the whole ...
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