The Lives and Works of Michael Angelo and RaphaelH. G. Bohn, 1856 - 474 pagine |
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Pagina 180 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Pagina 260 - I viewed them again and again : I even affected to feel their merit ; and to admire them more than I really did.
Pagina 121 - Our poet was of middle height, and after reaching mature years he went somewhat stooping; his gait was grave and sedate ; always clothed in most becoming garments, his dress was suited to the ripeness of his years ; his face was long, his nose aquiline, his eyes rather large than small, his jaw heavy, and his under lip prominent ; his complexion was dark, and his hair and beard thick, black, and crisp, and his countenance was always sad and thoughtful...
Pagina 259 - Raphael, and those admirable paintings in particular, owed their reputation to the ignorance and prejudice of mankind ; on the contrary, my not relishing them, as I was conscious I ought to have done, was one of the most humiliating circumstances that have ever happened to me...
Pagina 259 - It has frequently happened," says he, "as I was informed by the keeper of the Vatican, that many of those whom he had conducted through the various apartments of that edifice, when about to be dismissed, have asked for the works of...
Pagina 260 - In a short time a new taste and a new perception began to dawn upon me, and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art...
Pagina 151 - Italian schools, there is full as great a disparity in the effect of their pictures as produced by colours. And though in this respect the Venetians must be allowed extraordinary skill, yet even that skill, as they have employed it, will but ill correspond with the great style. Their colouring is not only too brilliant, but, I will venture to say, too harmonious, to produce that solidity, steadiness, and simplicity of effect, which heroic subjects require, and which simple or grave colours only can...
Pagina 120 - How shall we speak of him, for our blind eyes Are all unequal to his dazzling rays ? Easier it is to blame his enemies Than for the tongue to tell his lightest praise. For us did he explore the realms of woe ; And at his coming did high Heaven expand Her lofty gates, to whom his native land Refus'd to open hers.
Pagina 175 - Mary. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among women.
Pagina 131 - Love cannot have, than that hi loving thee Glory to that eternal Peace is paid, Who such divinity to thee imparts As hallows and makes pure all gentle hearts. His hope is treacherous only whose love dies With beauty, which is varying every hour ; But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced...