Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Or Collection of the Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Galleries of Europe, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Etienne Achille Reveil
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528203418
Category : Art
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Pages : 446

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Excerpt from Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of the Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Galleries of Europe, Vol. 7 Raphael, en réunissant ces deux scenes, a représenté J ésuschrist glorieux et portant les traces de son crucifiement. Il est ficheux que la plupart des apotres aient la tete de profil, cc qni ne permet pas de donner aux figures des expressions aussi nobles et aussi bien caractérisées. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Etienne Achille Réveil
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230160665
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...et les arts; il sut aussi, sans le detourner de l'arianisme, l'empecher de persecuter les catholiques. Une conduite aussi honorable ne put preserver Boece des vicissitudes de la fortune i Theodoric devenu vieux se laissa subjuguer par des gens qui porterent au comble la douleur et la misere du peuple. Des conspirations eurent lieu pour delivrer l'Italie du joug des Goths; Boece fut accuse d'y prendre part, et il fut enferme, dit-on, au chateau de Pavie, dans une tour que l'on fait encore voir, comme ayant ete la prison dans laquelle il fut mis a mort avec des tortures inouies, le 3o octobre 5 2 6-. Pendant le cours de ses travaux administratifs, Boece sut occupcr ses loisirs a la musique et aux mathematiques; c'est a lui qu'on doit l'invention des clepsydres, cylindre a compartimens dans lequel de l'eau, passant goutte a goutte, le fait tourner de maniere a connaitre la distance des temps. M. Schnetz a represente la fille de Boece privee des embrassemens de son pere, et faisant tous ses efforts pour qu'il puisse au moins les donner a son petit-fils. Les soldats que l'or apercoit indiquent qu'il est conduit au supplice. Haut., 9 pieds 6 pouces; larg., 8 pieds 4 pouces. COLBERT. Jean-Baptiste C0 was born at Reims in 1619. Placed with cardinal Mazarin's banker, he attracted the attention of his eminence, who entrusted him with the care of his affairs, and recommended him so strongly to the king, that when Fouquet lost office in 1661, it was Colbert who replaced him in the administration of finance, the order of which he...

Author: Jean Duchesne
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781342562876
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Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Jean Duchesne
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ISBN: 9781230140148
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Pages : 42

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... of this heart-rending scene. In representing this melancholy subject, Reynolds has given to his figures an expression of grief that penetrates the soul of the beholder, and agitates it strongly. This picture, which is remarkable with respect to the colouring and expression, is considered as the best performance of that master, who received 10,000 fr. or L. 400, for it, from the Duke of Dorset, at whose seat, at Knowle, it now is. J. Dixon gave a Mezzotinto print of it, in 1774: Raimbach has since engraved it in the Line Manner. Widlh, 5 feet 9 inches; height, 4 feet 1 inch. 9g REMORDS D'ORESTE. Oreste, revenant a Argos, apprend par sa s ur, Electre, l'infame amour de Glvtemnestre pour Egiste, l'horrible parricide commis par sa mere et son indigne amant, puis enfin l'hymen impie des deux criminels. A ce recit, il ne respire que vengeance, et veut sacrifier des viclimes aux manes d'Agamemnon. Les deux epoux viennent dans le temple; arrives pres de l'autel, Oreste immole Egiste; puis, aveugle par la fureur, il venge completement Agamemnon; mais il a lue sa mere. Ce nouveau crime vient a son tour troubler Oreste, il est poursuivi par les remords, dechire par les furies. Il en voit une lui montrant sans cesse l'ombre de sa mere, dans le sein de laquelle il a plonge son poignard. Lui seul apercoit ce spectacle affreux; la tendre Electre cherche a consoler son frere, elle veut l'aider a supporter son malheur, mais Oreste est tourmente des souvenirs les plus affreux. Le peintre, M. Hennequin, a montre un grand talent dans l'expression qu'il a donnee a ses tetes: les figures sont energiques et bien dessinees;...

Author: Jean Duchesne
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230158167
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Pages : 34

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...deux enfans, Diane et Apollon. Elle traversait la Ljcie accablee de soif et de lassitude; avant apercu un etang dont l'eau paraissait claire, elle s'en approcha pour s'y desalterer. Deja elle s'etait posee sur ses genoux pour boire plus a son aise; mais des paysans, qui arrachaient les roseaux de l'etang, la repousserent avec brutalite et l'empecherent de boire. Ils ajouterent a leur refus quelques injures, et la menacerent meme de la maltraiter si elle ne s'eloignait. La deesse, alors tout emue, leva les mains vers le ciel et demanda la punition de ces paysans, qui furent a l'instant metamorphoses en grenouilles. Ce beau groupe de marbre blanc est du au ciseau de Baltbazar de Marsy.il est au milieu de l'un des bassins du jardin de Versailles, sur la partie la plus eleveed'une estrade a plusieurs gradins en marbre rouge; autour sont disposees 74 figures de Lyciens, dans differens etats de metamorphose, et toutes jetant de l'eau vers la deesse, ce qui produit un des plus beaux effets d'eau de cette residence royale. Jean Edelinck a grave ce groupe en 1679. Haut., 5 pieds? D. 4. 684. LATONA AND HER CHILDREN. Constantly pursued by Juno, Latona had been obliged to quit the Island of Delos, where she had given birth to her two children, Apollo and Diana. She was crossing Lycia and was overpowered by thirst and fatigue: perceiving a pond whose water seemed clear, she approached to quench her drought. She had already knelt, to drink the more at her ease, when some peasants, who were gatEering reeds in the pond, brutally drove her away and prevented her from...

Author: Jean Duchesne
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230177724
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Pages : 38

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...me croirais un grand maitre s'il y avait seulement la moitie de tout ce que vous m'ecrivez; mais je reconnais dans vos eloges l'amitie que vous me portez, et je dis que, pour peindre une belle, il me faudrait en voir plusieurs, avec la condition que vous seriez avec moi pour m'aider a faire choix du meilleur. Mais les bons juges et les bons modeles sont rares, j'opere donc d'apres une certaine idee qui me vient a l'esprit. A-t elle quelque excellence sous le rapport de l'art, je ne sais, mais je m'efforce d'y arriver. Le triomphe de Galatee a ete grave par Marc-Antoine, par Dorigny, et par M. Richomme. Haut., to pieds; larg., 8 pieds.__ ITALIAN SCHOOL. RAPHAEL. ROME. '. GALATHiEA. When speaking of Galathaea and of her amours withAcis, and the jealousy felt in consequence by Polyphemus, Ovid says nothing of the Triumph afterwards offered her by the Sea Divinities. But the Italian poets of the XVI century have continued, altered, and varied the fictions of the ancients; it is therefore in reading their works that Raphael conceived the idea of this charming composition, which might be thought to be truly inspired by the sight of some antique painting, so much resemblance does it bear with the style of working of the ancients. Raphael executed this fresco in the palace of Agostino Chigi: it adorns one of the ends of the Gallery where the History of Psyche is painted. No doubt the reader will be curious to see the manner Raphael expressed himself, relative to this picture, in a letter to his friend Balthazar Castiglione. After mentioning that he sends him several designs, he adds: As to the Galathaea, I should consider myself a great master, if there was...

Author: Jean Duchesne
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230183077
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Pages : 52

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...et les manufactures francaises fournirent les draps, les soies, les faiences, que jusqu'alors on avait tires de l'etranger. Malgre le bien immense que Colbert procura a la France, ce grand minisire eut des ennemis: Hesnault ayant fait un sonnet injurieux contre son administration, on le pressait de l'en punir; mais ayant su que le roi n'y etait pas offense, Je ne le suis donc pas, repondit-il. Apres avoir ete sa ans ministre, Colbert mourut en ifi83. M. Milhomme, auteur de cette statue, l'a costume avec un manteau fort ample qui n'etait guere d'usage a cette epoque. Haut., n pieds. SCULPTURE. .ci..M. DUPASQU1ER. mii PaRIS. DUGUAY-TROUIN. Rene Duguay-thouin was born at Saint-Malo in 1673: his father, an able seaman, made him study at Rennes and at Caen, but his taste and his manners agreed little with the ecclesiastical state, for which he had been destined, and in spite of having received the tonsure, he readily joined a frigate, his family had armed for the war declared against England in 1689. In ifiyi, his family trusted him with the command of a frigate; and in 169, while Tourville was Gghting the unfortunate battle of the Hague, Duguay-Trouin, took on the englishcoast, two vessels which were convoying thirty merchantmen. In 1694, when commanding a frigate, he defended himself obstinately against six vessels; but wounded at last, aud insensible, he was carried into Plymouth. Having returned to France, and at the age only of twentyone years, he again attacked two vessels and compelled them to submit; and insisted upon the captain, giving him the commissions belonging to Jean Bart and de Forbin, ...

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Author: Bruce Redford
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892369248
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Bruce Redford re-creates the vibrant culture of connoisseurship in Enlightenment England by investigating the multifaceted activities and achievements of the Society of Dilettani. Elegantly and wittily he dissects the British connoisseurs whose expeditions, collections, and publications laid the groundwork for the Neoclassical revival and for the scholarly study of Graeco-Roman antiquity. After the foundation of the society in 1732, the Dilettani commissioned portraits of the members. Including a striking group of mock-classical and mock-religious representations, these portraits were painted by George Knapton, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. During the second half of the century, the society’s expeditions to the Levant yielded a series of pioneering architectural folios, beginning with the first volume The Antiquities of Athens in 1762. These monumental volumes aspired to empirical exactitude in text and image alike. They prepared the way for Specimens of Antient Sculpture (1809), which combines the didactic (detailed investigations into technique, condition, restoration, and provenance) with the connoisseurial (plates that bring the illustration of ancient sculpture to new artistic heights). The Society of Dilettanti’s projects and publications exemplify the Enlightenment ideal of the gentleman amateur, which is linked in turn to a culture of wide-ranging curiosity.