 | English poetry - 1802 - 888 pages
...rests long enough to criticise, and where the works of a capital master should never be placed, viz. ceilings and stair-cases. The New Testament, or the Roman history, cost him nothing but ultra marine. Charles the Second, wishing to revive the manufacture of tapestry at Mort lake, which... | |
 | Thomas Blore - Antiques - 1815 - 320 pages
...long enough to criticise, and where one should be sorry to place the works of a better master, I mean, ceilings and staircases. The New Testament or the...marble columns and marble steps, he never spared." In like man. ner, as he introduced a divine, his favourite lady, and a maid servant* in his paintings... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...to see placed the works of a better master,—I mean ceilings and staircases. The New Testament and the Roman History cost him nothing but ultra-marine...marble columns and marble steps he never spared." In the picture before us, Charles II. is giving audience to a deputation from the Hospital, including... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1848 - 562 pages
...sorry to place the works of a better master ; I mean, ceilings and staircases. The New Testament and the Roman History cost him nothing but ultramarine...marble columns and marble steps, he never spared." This was the general character of the historical paintings of this period. In portraitpainting, the... | |
 | Sir Henry Cole - 1849 - 170 pages
...sorry to place the works of a better master— I mean ceilings and staircases. The New Testament and the Roman History cost him nothing but ultra-marine...marble columns, and marble steps, he never spared." Here, " Oi Se Sioi trap Zjjvi KaSti^evoi »jyopoiairo," and for the visitor who is curious to decipher... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1849 - 462 pages
...and where one should be sorry to place the works of a bctter master : I mean ceilings and staireases. The New Testament or the Roman History cost him nothing but ultra-marine ; that, and marble coluums, and marble steps he never spared. He first scttled in France, and painted the high altar of... | |
 | Maria Farquhar - Artists - 1855 - 240 pages
...than Raphael or Michelangelo were paid for all their paintings put together: he received 18,000/., besides his keep, and a carriage at his disposal....best. (Dominici, Walpole.) VERROCCHIO, ANDREA DEL, b. at Florence, 1432, d. at Venice, 1488. Tuscan School. He was the scholar of Donatello, and was painter,... | |
 | Maria Farquhar - Artists - 1855 - 242 pages
...eye never rests long enough to criticise — ceilings and staircases. The New Testament or the Eoman History cost him nothing but ultramarine ; that, and...Chatsworth, is one of his best. (Dominici, Walpole.) VEKROCCHIO, ANDREA DEL, b. at Florence, 1432, d. at Venice, 1488. Tuscan School. He was the scholar... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1856 - 570 pages
...sorry to place the works of a better master ; I mean ceilings and staircases. The New Testament and the Roman History cost him nothing but ultramarine...marble columns and marble steps he never spared." This was the general character of the historical paintings of this period. In portrait painting the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Biography - 1868 - 532 pages
...to place the works of a better master — I mean ceilings aud staircases. The New Testanent or tho Roman History cost him nothing but ultramarine ; that,...marble columns, and marble steps, he never spared." Scheffers of Utrecht worked twenty-five years for Verrio, and he employed a painter of the name of... | |
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... should be sorry to place the works of a better master, — I mean ceilings and staircases. The New Testament or the Roman History cost him nothing but ultramarine ; that and marble columns and marble steps he never spared. 
