Walks Through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome, Volumes 1-2Monaldini, 1841 - Sculptors |
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... marbles a standard by which to estimate liv- ing merit . In the Elgin marbles now in the Bri- tish Museum we see how the principles of the Ideal in imitation and the Beautiful in execution were reduced to practice by Phidias , the first ...
... marbles a standard by which to estimate liv- ing merit . In the Elgin marbles now in the Bri- tish Museum we see how the principles of the Ideal in imitation and the Beautiful in execution were reduced to practice by Phidias , the first ...
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... Marble should perpetuate the character not costume , should exhibit the attributes of the mind not the decoration of the body . 99 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT OF THE TWO BROTHERS . In the city of ... lived two brothers remarkable for their ...
... Marble should perpetuate the character not costume , should exhibit the attributes of the mind not the decoration of the body . 99 SEPULCHRAL MONUMENT OF THE TWO BROTHERS . In the city of ... lived two brothers remarkable for their ...
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... marble must have proved a difficult task in ordinary hands ; but it is eloquently told by our author in two fi- gures . A middle - aged female , apparently enfeebled by illness , is seen seated ; and , to imply that she is in a place ...
... marble must have proved a difficult task in ordinary hands ; but it is eloquently told by our author in two fi- gures . A middle - aged female , apparently enfeebled by illness , is seen seated ; and , to imply that she is in a place ...
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... marble block , occupied in writing on the eternal scroll the good and bad deeds of the deceased . She is , as usual , accompanied with the emblem of her celerity the wheel her hair is bound by a fil- t ; aud the beauty of her ...
... marble block , occupied in writing on the eternal scroll the good and bad deeds of the deceased . She is , as usual , accompanied with the emblem of her celerity the wheel her hair is bound by a fil- t ; aud the beauty of her ...
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... marble by Phi- dias . The Romans offerred sacrifice to her before they declared war to show that their wars were undertaken on just grounds and under the auspices of the avenging Nemesis . If then she wings her 9 flight over sea and ...
... marble by Phi- dias . The Romans offerred sacrifice to her before they declared war to show that their wars were undertaken on just grounds and under the auspices of the avenging Nemesis . If then she wings her 9 flight over sea and ...
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Page 24 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David ; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 24 - With fancied roses, than the unblemished moon Before her wane begins on heaven's blue coast; Thy Image falls to earth. Yet some, I ween, Not unforgiven the suppliant knee might bend, As to a visible Power, in which did blend All that was mixed and reconciled in Thee Of mother's love with maiden purity, Of high with low, celestial with terrene ! 1821.
Page 22 - Blessed art thou Simon Bar-Jona ; because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee : That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 198 - No wonder * such celestial charms For nine long years have set the world in arms ; What winning graces ! what majestic mien ! She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen ! Yet hence, O Heaven, convey that fatal face, And from destruction save the Trojan race.
Page 243 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 33 - And he shall go before Him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
Page 22 - WERE not the sinful Mary's tears . An offering worthy Heaven, When, o'er the faults of former years, She wept — and was forgiven...
Page 21 - And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.
Page 103 - CHILD of the sun ! pursue thy rapturous flight. Mingling with her thou lov'st in fields of light; And, where the flowers of paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky Expand and shut with silent ecstasy ! Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept And such is man ; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day.
Page 171 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it Love-in-idleness.