Walks in Florence, by S. and J. Horner, Volumen21884 |
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Agnolo Agnolo Bronzino altar altar-piece Andrea del Sarto Angelico angels Annunciation Antonio Arezzo arms artist Bargello Bartolommeo beautiful belonging beneath Botticelli bronze bust Cardinal celebrated centre century chapel Christ church Cigoli colour composition contains convent died Domenico door drawing Emperor engraved entrance Etruscan executed Ferdinand Fiesole figures Filippino Lippi Filippo Florence Florentine Fra Angelico Fra Bartolommeo frame Francesco Francis fresco Gallery garden Giotto Giovanni da Bologna Grand Duke Cosimo Greek ground hand head Holy Family Italy Jacopo John the Baptist kneeling landscape Lorenzo lovely Luca Madonna and Child marble master Medici Michael Angelo monastery monks Monte Museum Nicolò painted painter palace Palazzo Perugino Piazza picture Piero Pietro Leopoldo Podestà Pope Porta portrait predella Raffaelle relief represented Robbia Roman Rome saint San Miniato Santa Maria Saviour side Sienna specimens statue supposed Titian Tuscany Uffizi Urbino vases villa Virgin wall whilst window
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Página 298 - Whatever fruits in different climes were found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor...
Página 416 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 298 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 265 - To gain a correct impression of them, indeed, these figures should be seen in their original places, where their supernatural size, the bold freedom of their attitudes, and something of the classical in their appearance, would give them still greater value. Pippo Spano, in a defiant attitude, bending the steel of his rapier in his two hands, and with legs apart, challenges the world and seems capable of victory. There is dignity in the...
Página 297 - Arno yields usually two harvests a year, the first of wheat, the second of some green crop, which last is sometimes ploughed up and left to rot on the field as manure for the next. This course is interrupted every third or fourth year by a crop of Turkey -wheat...
Página 5 - ... lids and hardly apparent iris of the eyes. The angel is presented kneeling in a dress and stole, all engraved with embroidery in relief and the words issuing from his mouth are given in a similar manner. This is a picture whose affected tenderness might -well have had influence on the school of mystic painters. On one side S.