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... called the heroic ages of Christianity had the same interest for the nations of Europe . There were men who made it their business to collect them , to transcribe them , to read or recite them aloud , for the edification and delight of ...
... called the heroic ages of Christianity had the same interest for the nations of Europe . There were men who made it their business to collect them , to transcribe them , to read or recite them aloud , for the edification and delight of ...
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... called . The first great object to which reviving Art was destined , was to render the Christian places of worship a theatre of instruction and improvement for the people , to attract and to interest them by representations of scenes ...
... called . The first great object to which reviving Art was destined , was to render the Christian places of worship a theatre of instruction and improvement for the people , to attract and to interest them by representations of scenes ...
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... called in Italian a " sacra conversazione : " the word conversazione , which sig- nifies a society in which there is communion , being here , as it appears to me , used with peculiar propriety . All subjects , then , which exhibit to us ...
... called in Italian a " sacra conversazione : " the word conversazione , which sig- nifies a society in which there is communion , being here , as it appears to me , used with peculiar propriety . All subjects , then , which exhibit to us ...
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... called the " Paradiso , " so often met with in pictures and ecclesiastical decoration , where Christ is en- throned in glory : such is also the Coronation of the Virgin , that ancient and popular symbol of the triumph of Religion or the ...
... called the " Paradiso , " so often met with in pictures and ecclesiastical decoration , where Christ is en- throned in glory : such is also the Coronation of the Virgin , that ancient and popular symbol of the triumph of Religion or the ...
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... called anachronisms in devotional subjects , where personages who lived at different and distant periods of time are found grouped together . It is curious to find the critics of the last century treating with pity and ridicule , as the ...
... called anachronisms in devotional subjects , where personages who lived at different and distant periods of time are found grouped together . It is curious to find the critics of the last century treating with pity and ridicule , as the ...
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