The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... figure . This was the intention of Albert Durer's treatise on the symmetry of the human figure . Mr Scott's or Signor Croce's theory of æsthetic seems to me meaningless for any practical purpose ; moreover , it leaves wholly untouched a ...
... figure . This was the intention of Albert Durer's treatise on the symmetry of the human figure . Mr Scott's or Signor Croce's theory of æsthetic seems to me meaningless for any practical purpose ; moreover , it leaves wholly untouched a ...
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... figures , the actual design of the façade , and of that of San Lazaro dei Mendicanti ( 1673 ) , is no more Baroque than that of San Giorgio or the Redentore . There is any quantity of Baroque design in the altar pieces of the Venetian ...
... figures , the actual design of the façade , and of that of San Lazaro dei Mendicanti ( 1673 ) , is no more Baroque than that of San Giorgio or the Redentore . There is any quantity of Baroque design in the altar pieces of the Venetian ...
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... figures . The object is at all costs to create a sensation , and Mr Robertson , the advocate of the sensational and dramatic in his ' New Architecture , ' and Mr Geoffrey Scott , the defender of the old , find themselves for once on ...
... figures . The object is at all costs to create a sensation , and Mr Robertson , the advocate of the sensational and dramatic in his ' New Architecture , ' and Mr Geoffrey Scott , the defender of the old , find themselves for once on ...
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... , there is an amazing ceiling by Fumiani , covering the whole of the nave . The rules of perspective were conscientiously applied , the figures supposed to be next the cornice are colossal , those 22 ARCHITECTURE , NEW AND OLD.
... , there is an amazing ceiling by Fumiani , covering the whole of the nave . The rules of perspective were conscientiously applied , the figures supposed to be next the cornice are colossal , those 22 ARCHITECTURE , NEW AND OLD.
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... figures and four gladiators . In the centre of the garden is a water - piece , and four groups , Æneas and Anchises , Hercules and Antæus , Proserpine , a lady of most ample proportions , struggling stoutly in the arms of Pluto , and ...
... figures and four gladiators . In the centre of the garden is a water - piece , and four groups , Æneas and Anchises , Hercules and Antæus , Proserpine , a lady of most ample proportions , struggling stoutly in the arms of Pluto , and ...
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