The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings: Or, Biographical Review, Volume 3Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808 - Biography |
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... composition . It may be urged that the genius of Poussin has had considerable influence over the artists of his ... compositions of the Flemish painters , took in- finite pleasure in contemplating the paintings of Le Brun , whose pencil ...
... composition . It may be urged that the genius of Poussin has had considerable influence over the artists of his ... compositions of the Flemish painters , took in- finite pleasure in contemplating the paintings of Le Brun , whose pencil ...
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... compositions that conformity , or rather monotony , of style , observable in the greater part of the works of that . time . But , in making this remark , Le Brun should not be too rigorously accused , whose conduct has ever proved that ...
... compositions that conformity , or rather monotony , of style , observable in the greater part of the works of that . time . But , in making this remark , Le Brun should not be too rigorously accused , whose conduct has ever proved that ...
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... composition ; and no less remark- able for dignity than for truth . This induced the Bo- lognese painters to decry their best works ; and Lodovico mistrusted his judgment . Annibal , however , certain of his powers , persisted in his ...
... composition ; and no less remark- able for dignity than for truth . This induced the Bo- lognese painters to decry their best works ; and Lodovico mistrusted his judgment . Annibal , however , certain of his powers , persisted in his ...
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... compositions , that ten lines are seldom found together , without something of which the reader is ashamed . He was no judge of his own pages : he seldom struggled after supreme excellence , but snatched in haste what was within his ...
... compositions , that ten lines are seldom found together , without something of which the reader is ashamed . He was no judge of his own pages : he seldom struggled after supreme excellence , but snatched in haste what was within his ...
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... compositions , brilliancy of colouring , and care in execution , will be ever admired . Vasari , speaking of Albert Durer , says , that he would have been the first of painters had he studied at Rome the chef d'œuvres of antiquity ...
... compositions , brilliancy of colouring , and care in execution , will be ever admired . Vasari , speaking of Albert Durer , says , that he would have been the first of painters had he studied at Rome the chef d'œuvres of antiquity ...
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