Pleasure Excursions: as Guides for Making Day's Excursions on the Eastern Counties, South-Eastern [and Other] Railways1847 - Great Britain |
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... paintings - the most interesting in the gallery - which are hung on either side of the Fra Bartolomeo , is scarcely less striking at this point of view . Before we speak in detail of this focus of attraction , we will glance at the ...
... paintings - the most interesting in the gallery - which are hung on either side of the Fra Bartolomeo , is scarcely less striking at this point of view . Before we speak in detail of this focus of attraction , we will glance at the ...
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... painting is nearly ten feet square , and is thought to be the only equestrian portrait ever painted by him . The chiar ... paintings- the family group of John Count of Nassau , consisting of the Count , the Countess , and their four ...
... painting is nearly ten feet square , and is thought to be the only equestrian portrait ever painted by him . The chiar ... paintings- the family group of John Count of Nassau , consisting of the Count , the Countess , and their four ...
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... painters of his time , seems the very reverse of modern general practice . The highest lights , for the most part ... painted with no higher aim than that of realizing extreme maternal and infantine beauty . It is dated 1508 , and ...
... painters of his time , seems the very reverse of modern general practice . The highest lights , for the most part ... painted with no higher aim than that of realizing extreme maternal and infantine beauty . It is dated 1508 , and ...
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... painting . In this picture , the Virgin is seated on a bench , holding the Child , who is fondly seizing his ... painter's works , not only in our country but in all Europe , except in his native city , Florence . It is a Holy Family ...
... painting . In this picture , the Virgin is seated on a bench , holding the Child , who is fondly seizing his ... painter's works , not only in our country but in all Europe , except in his native city , Florence . It is a Holy Family ...
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... palings , and ruined pumps in the immediate neigh- bourhood . A familiar life painter might find a rich store of models here . Stratford Junction Station . T TERMINUS OF THE SOUTH - EASTERN AND BRIGHTON RAILWAYS PANSHANGER .
... palings , and ruined pumps in the immediate neigh- bourhood . A familiar life painter might find a rich store of models here . Stratford Junction Station . T TERMINUS OF THE SOUTH - EASTERN AND BRIGHTON RAILWAYS PANSHANGER .
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Page 5 - The lofty tower, with the grated door and porter's lodge beneath it, the retired ambulatory, the separate cells, the common refectory, the venerable church, the black flowing dress and the silver cross worn by the members, the conventual appellation of brother, with which they salute each other ; in short, the silence, the order, and the neatness, that here reign, serve to recall the idea of a monastery to those who have seen one, and will give no imperfect idea of such an establishment to those...
Page 7 - Others are in the horse-shoe form, of which the entrance into the north porch is the most antique specimen. In one place we have a curious triangular arch. The capitals and bases of the columns alternately vary in their form, as well as in their ornaments. The same circumstance is observable in the ribs of the arches, especially in the north and south aisles; some of them being plain, and others profusely embellished, and in different styles, even within the same arch.
Page 7 - ... 120 feet, and a large square tower over the intersection. It is entirely the work of De Blois, except the front and upper story of the west end, which are of a...
Page 7 - ... when she composed her hands to play and her voice to sing, it was joined with that sweetness of countenance that three harmonies concurred ; likewise, when she danced, her rare proportions varied themselves into all the graces that belong either to rest or motion.
Page 5 - They had also a pottage called mortrel, made of milk and wastelbred, a dish of flesh or fish, as the day should require, and a pittance for their dinner, likewise one dish for their supper. Besides these thirteen resident poor men, the foundation required that one hundred others, the most indigent that could be found in the city, but of good characters, should be provided every day with a loaf of bread, three quarts of small beer, and two messes for their dinner, in a hall appointed for this purpose,...