Walks in Florence and Its Environs, Volume 2Smith, 1884 - Florence (Italy) |
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Walks in Florence and Its Environs, Volume 2 Susan Horner,Joanna B. Horner No preview available - 1884 |
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Agnolo Agnolo Bronzino Allori altar-piece Andrea del Sarto Angelico angels Annunciation Antonio arms artist Bargello Bartolommeo beautiful belonging Botticelli bronze bust Cardinal Cavalcaselle celebrated centre century Christ church Cigoli colour composition contains Domenico Domenico Ghirlandaio door drawing Emperor engraved entrance Etruscan executed expression Ferdinand Fiesole figures Filippino Lippi Filippo Florence Florentine Fra Angelico Fra Bartolommeo frame Francesco Francis fresco Gallery Ghirlandaio Giotto Giovanni graceful Grand Duke Cosimo Greek ground hand head Hercules Holy Family Jacopo John the Baptist kneeling landscape Lippi lovely Luca Signorelli Madonna and Child Magdalene marble Mariotto Albertinelli master Medici Michael Angelo monastery Museum Nicolò painted painter palace Paolo Veronese Perugino picture Piero Pitti Podestà Pollajolo Pope Porta portrait predella Raffaelle relief represented Rome saint Sandro Botticelli Santa Maria Saviour seated side Sienna statue supposed Titian Tuscan Uffizi Uffizi Gallery Urbino vases villa wall whilst window
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Page 298 - Whatever fruits in different climes were found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor...
Page 414 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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.
Page 451 - His legions, angel forms, who lay entranced, Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades, High overarched, embower...
Page 298 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Page 259 - Giotto was born about 1266, and died 1336. The Palace of the Podesta, or Bargello, is said to have been twice burnt, first in 1332, and secondly in 1342 ; Giovan Villani, describing the first fire, proceeds thus : ' Arse tutto il tetto del vecchio Palazzo e le due parti del nuovo delle prime volte in su.
Page 265 - ... of their attitudes, and something of the classical in their appearance, would give them still greater value. Pippo Spano, in a defiant attitude bending the steel of his rapier in his two hands and with legs apart, challenges the world, and seems capable of victory. There is dignity in the...
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Page 5 - ... lids and hardly apparent iris of the eyes. The angel is presented kneeling in a dress and stole, all engraved with embroidery in relief and the words issuing from his mouth are given in a similar manner. This is a picture whose affected tenderness might -well have had influence on the school of mystic painters. On one side S.
Page 509 - We recollect no book that so vividly recalls the country to those who have visited it, and we should recommend intending tourists to carry it with them as a companion of travel.