Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book for travellers in Belgium, on the Rhine, and through portions of Rhenish Prussia, Volume 261853 |
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... Italian artist , travelling into Flanders in order to acquire a knowledge of it , though , two hundred years previously , oil painting had been practised in Italy . With the works of Van Eyck and his brother must be associated Hans ...
... Italian artist , travelling into Flanders in order to acquire a knowledge of it , though , two hundred years previously , oil painting had been practised in Italy . With the works of Van Eyck and his brother must be associated Hans ...
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... Italian artists . Below is the tabernacle , and underneath St. Martin dividing his cloak . The Seven Sacra- ments are represented on the bas - reliefs , admirable works of art , at the lower rows , and the entire construction is ...
... Italian artists . Below is the tabernacle , and underneath St. Martin dividing his cloak . The Seven Sacra- ments are represented on the bas - reliefs , admirable works of art , at the lower rows , and the entire construction is ...
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... More , by Holbein . Passing from this gem of the German school to the Italian collection , we potice two paintings attributed to Titian . We Theatre Antwerp Notre Dame . Antwerp . Interior of Notre 34 [ Route 6 . BRADSHAW'S HAND - BOOK.
... More , by Holbein . Passing from this gem of the German school to the Italian collection , we potice two paintings attributed to Titian . We Theatre Antwerp Notre Dame . Antwerp . Interior of Notre 34 [ Route 6 . BRADSHAW'S HAND - BOOK.
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... Italian school has also a Job visited by his Friends , and a St. Sebastian ; the latter by Procaccini . The French School contains the Saviour giving His Benediction , by Lesueur ; a small St. Charles Borromeo , by Vouet ; and a Calvary ...
... Italian school has also a Job visited by his Friends , and a St. Sebastian ; the latter by Procaccini . The French School contains the Saviour giving His Benediction , by Lesueur ; a small St. Charles Borromeo , by Vouet ; and a Calvary ...
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... Italy . Nor is it at all improbable that the southern school of painting received many of its perfections and ... Italian schools ; whilst the southern style of architecture is seen in many of the oldest churches . And to - day , when ...
... Italy . Nor is it at all improbable that the southern school of painting received many of its perfections and ... Italian schools ; whilst the southern style of architecture is seen in many of the oldest churches . And to - day , when ...
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Abbey altar ancient Antwerp Baden Baths beautiful Belgium BRADSHAW'S bridge Bruges Brussels building built called canal Carriages castle Cathedral celebrated centre century chapel Charlemagne Charleroi Château choir Church of St CLASS HOTEL Coblenz Cologne comfort commands contains Counts of Flanders crosses Duke Emperor English Church erected excellent excursion Families first-class formerly France French Garden German Ghent Gothic GRAND HOTEL hill Holland inhabitants left bank Liége London magnificent Mannheim Mayence Meuse miles moderate charges monument Moselle mountains Museum Namur opposite ornamented Ostend paintings Palace Paris passes Pension picturesque population Prince Promenade Proprietor Prussia rail Railway Station remarkable residence Rhine right bank river road rock Roman Rooms Route Royal Rubens ruins Saloons Scheldt side situated Spires splendid statue Steamers Strassburg streets style Table d'Hôte Theatre tion tower town traveller Trèves valley village visitors West Flanders wine
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Page 177 - CARL WEISS, Proprietor. THIS first-rate establishment, situated near the great Public Promenade, combines comfort with elegance, and has the advantage of possessing a spacious and beautiful garden. Two superior Table d'Hotes daily.
Page 142 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 32 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas!
Page 34 - Was it a soothing or a mournful thought, Amid this scene of slaughter as we stood, Where armies had with recent fury fought, To mark how gentle Nature still pursued Her quiet course, as if she took no care For what her noblest work had suffer'd there.