The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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Page 191
... popes and senators , -in spite of the more touching per- sonal inconvenience , and even risk and danger , at- tendant thereupon - to persist in wearing shoes of so preposterous a length , that the toes were obliged to be fastened with ...
... popes and senators , -in spite of the more touching per- sonal inconvenience , and even risk and danger , at- tendant thereupon - to persist in wearing shoes of so preposterous a length , that the toes were obliged to be fastened with ...
Page 192
... Pope , and the declamations of the Clergy , this ridicu- lous fashion was in vogue near three centuries . And the party - coloured hose , which were worn about the same time , were a fitting accompaniment for the crackowes . We feel ...
... Pope , and the declamations of the Clergy , this ridicu- lous fashion was in vogue near three centuries . And the party - coloured hose , which were worn about the same time , were a fitting accompaniment for the crackowes . We feel ...
Page 275
... Pope Leo the Tenth to paint those cartoons which have more than all his works immortalised his name , and which render the brief hints we have given respecting him peculiarly appropriate to this work . The cartoons were designs , from ...
... Pope Leo the Tenth to paint those cartoons which have more than all his works immortalised his name , and which render the brief hints we have given respecting him peculiarly appropriate to this work . The cartoons were designs , from ...
Page 276
... Pope , and subsequent intestine troubles seem to have delayed their appropriation . They cost seventy thousand crowns , a sum which is said to have been defrayed by Francis the First of France , in consideration of Leo's having ...
... Pope , and subsequent intestine troubles seem to have delayed their appropriation . They cost seventy thousand crowns , a sum which is said to have been defrayed by Francis the First of France , in consideration of Leo's having ...
Page 277
... Pope Paul the Fourth ( 1555 ) first introduced them to the gaze of the public by exhibiting them before the Basilica of St. Peter on the festival of Corpus Do- mini , and also at the solemn " function of Beatifi- cation . " This use of ...
... Pope Paul the Fourth ( 1555 ) first introduced them to the gaze of the public by exhibiting them before the Basilica of St. Peter on the festival of Corpus Do- mini , and also at the solemn " function of Beatifi- cation . " This use of ...
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