A Dictionary of Terms in ArtStrahan & Company, 1870 - 474 páginas |
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adopted altar Ancient Art animals antique appear applied architecture armour arms artists attribute baldachin bas-reliefs beautiful blue body brass British Museum bronze CHITON CHLAMYS Christ Christian Art church clay colour consisting copied copper costume covered cross crown decorated depicted early Egyptian Elgin Marbles emblem employed enamel engraving exhibits fifteenth century figures frequently Gallery glass gold Greek green ground hand head helmet heraldry Herculaneum imitation Ital kind linseed oil manufacture marble ment metal middle ages modern Monumental Brasses monuments mould Museum nature original orna ornamental oxide painters painting Paul Veronese peculiar picture pigment placed plate Pompeii produced Prussian blue racter repre representation represented Roman Rome sacred saint Saviour sculpture shield sixteenth sometimes specimens statues stone style surface symbol taste temple term tint tion Titian ture usually various varnish vases vessel Virgin walls wood word worn yellow
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Página 170 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 375 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Página 428 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace; where were white, green, and blue hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black marble.
Página 166 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning "work.
Página 159 - When they conceived a subject, they first made a variety of sketches ; then a finished drawing of the whole ; after that a more correct drawing of every separate part...
Página 211 - ... not only do the colours of some Egyptian opaque glass offer the most varied devices on the exterior, distributed with the regularity of a studied design, but the same hue and the same device pass in right lines directly through the substance ; so that in whatever part it is broken, or wherever a section may chance to be made of it, the same appearance, the same colours, and the same device present themselves, without being found ever to deviate from the direction of a straight line, from the...
Página 166 - And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side. 36 And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
Página 51 - I cannot," says Peacham, in his Complete Gentleman, " but with much reverence mention the every way Right Honourable Thomas Howard, Lord High Marshall of England, as great for his noble patronage of arts and ancient learning, as for his high birth and place ; to whose liberal charges and magnificence this angle of the world oweth the first sight of Greek and Roman statues, with whose admired presence he began to honour the galleries and gardens of Arundel House, •bout twenty years ago, and hath...
Página 277 - Testament. § 1. The Annunciation. 2. The Visitation. 3. The Nativity. 4. The Adoration of the Kings. 5. The Presentation in the Temple. 6. Christ found by his Mother in the Temple. 7. The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin.
Página 47 - ... other features composed a face ; but the expression of feelings and passions was entirely wanting ; and the countenance of the king, whether charging an enemy's phalanx in the heat of battle, or peaceably offering incense in a sombre temple, presented the same outline and the same inanimate look. The peculiarity of the front view of an eye, introduced in a profile, is thus accounted for : it was the ordinary representation of that feature added to a profile, and no allowance was made for any...