Florence, Siena, and other towns of Tuscany and UmbriaDaldy, Isbister & Company, 1876 |
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Florence, Siena, and other towns of Tuscany and Umbria Augustus John Cuthbert Hare Visualizzazione completa - 1876 |
Florence, Siena, and other towns of Tuscany and Umbria Augustus John Cuthbert Hare Visualizzazione completa - 1876 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Adoration Andrea del Sarto Angelico angels Annunciation Antonio arches Arno artist Baccio Baptist Bardi Bartolommeo beautiful beneath Benedetto Benedetto da Majano Bishop Borgo Bronzino Brunelleschi built bust called Cappella Cardinal cathedral Catherine chapel choir Christ church Cimabue cloister contains convent Cosimo Croce cross crucifix Crucifixion Dante death Domenico Donatello door Duke entrance famous Fiesole figure Filippino Lippi Filippo Florence Florentine Fra Angelico Fra Bartolommeo Francesco Francis frescoes Gaddi gate Ghirlandajo Giotto Giovanni Giovanni da Bologna Giuliano Gothic grand hand hill Jacopo John kneeling loggia Lorenzo lovely Luca della Robbia Luca Signorelli Madonna and Child marble Maria Masaccio Medici Michael Angelo Miniato monks monument Niccolò noble painted painter palace Palazzo Perugino Piazza picture Pietro Pope Porta Portrait Raffaelle Sacristy saints Saviour Savonarola side Siena Signoria statue Strozzi Taddeo Titian tomb tower transept Tuscan Sculptors Uffizi Vasari Vecchio villa Virgin and Child wall
Brani popolari
Pagina 226 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Pagina 223 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness...
Pagina 206 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Pagina 22 - There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills * The air around with beauty ; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality ; the veil Of heaven is half undrawn ; within the pale We stand, and in that form and face behold What mind can make, when Nature's self would And to the fond idolaters of old [fail ; Envy the innate flash which such a soul could mould : L.
Pagina 113 - A twofold influence, — only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both, and yet neither. There, from age to age, Two ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke Lorenzo. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon his hand. What from beneath his helm-like bonnet scowls ? Is it a face, or but an eyeless skull ? Tis lost in shade ; yet, like the basilisk, It fascinates, and is intolerable.
Pagina 112 - Nor then forget that Chamber of the Dead, Where the gigantic shapes of Night and Day, Turned into stone, rest everlastingly; • Yet still are breathing, and shed round at noon A two-fold influence — only to be felt — A light, a darkness, mingling each with each ; Both and yet neither. There, from age to age, Two Ghosts are sitting on their sepulchres. That is the Duke LORENZO. Mark him well. He meditates, his head upon his hand. What from beneath his helm-like bonnet scowls ? Is it a face, or...
Pagina 142 - Come back in sleep, for in the life Where thou art not We find none like thee. Time and strife And the world's lot Move thee no more; but love at least And reverent heart May move thee, royal and released Soul, as thou art.
Pagina 223 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Pagina 25 - ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY. I. IT lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine ; Below, far lands are seen tremblingly ; Its horror and its beauty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, struggling underneath, The agonies of anguish and of death.
Pagina 113 - Tis lost in shade ; yet, like the basilisk, It fascinates, and is intolerable. His mien is noble, most majestical ! Then most so, when the distant choir is heard At morn or eve...