Handbook to the Public Galleries of Art in and Near London: With Critical, Historical, and Biographical Notices of the Painters and Pictures |
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... WINDSOR CASTLE . DULWICH GALLERY . BARRY'S PICTURES . HAMPTON COURT . SOANE'S MUSEUM . A NEW EDITION , WITH AN INDEX . LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . 1845 . تا LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS STAMFORD HANDBOOK.
... WINDSOR CASTLE . DULWICH GALLERY . BARRY'S PICTURES . HAMPTON COURT . SOANE'S MUSEUM . A NEW EDITION , WITH AN INDEX . LONDON : JOHN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET . 1845 . تا LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS STAMFORD HANDBOOK.
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... John Philip Kemble " ( 142 ) ; all fine examples of characteristic portrait - painting in different schools of art . * 66 IV . - LANDSCAPE was first introduced merely as an acces- sory or background , † and the earliest painter who made ...
... John Philip Kemble " ( 142 ) ; all fine examples of characteristic portrait - painting in different schools of art . * 66 IV . - LANDSCAPE was first introduced merely as an acces- sory or background , † and the earliest painter who made ...
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... John xi . 43 , 44 . " THE point of time chosen is after the completion of the miracle . Lazarus is represented sitting on the stone coffin which had contained his body , supported by three men , who , having been employed to remove the ...
... John xi . 43 , 44 . " THE point of time chosen is after the completion of the miracle . Lazarus is represented sitting on the stone coffin which had contained his body , supported by three men , who , having been employed to remove the ...
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... John and his mother Elizabeth are included . The Roman Catholic religion had consecrated the mother and her child as the highest objects of affectionate superstition ; and art lent its noblest powers to clothe in the most select and ...
... John and his mother Elizabeth are included . The Roman Catholic religion had consecrated the mother and her child as the highest objects of affectionate superstition ; and art lent its noblest powers to clothe in the most select and ...
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... John xix . 5 . In treating of pictures , the title of Ecce Homo ( Behold the Man ! ) is given to such as represent the Saviour crowned with thorns ; generally it is a single head , but sometimes other figures and accessaries are ...
... John xix . 5 . In treating of pictures , the title of Ecce Homo ( Behold the Man ! ) is given to such as represent the Saviour crowned with thorns ; generally it is a single head , but sometimes other figures and accessaries are ...
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