Annals of the Artists of Spain, Volumen 3

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J. Ollivier, 1848
 

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Página 1362 - ... and the story ends with the pious exclamation, " from which devill and all other devills defend us, good Lord ! Amen." We have spoken of the collections of tales, which, at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Página 1009 - She was distinguished, in the first place, by her austerities. " Her usual food was an herb bitter as wormwood. When compelled by her mother to wear a wreath of roses, she so adjusted it on her brow that it became a crown of thorns. Rejecting a host of suitors, she destroyed the lovely complexion to which she owed her name, by an application of pepper and quicklime. But she was also a noble example of filial devotion, and maintained her once wealthy parents, fallen on evil days, by the labour of...
Página 1127 - Noticia general para la estimación de las artes, y de la manera en que se conocen las liberales de las que son mecánicas y serviles, con una...
Página 995 - Paintings [Poems] of the Most Eminent Masters, Ancient and Modern. With Reflections upon the several Schools of Painting. By JE, Esq.
Página 1134 - AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WORKS OF THE MOST EMINENT SPANISH PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND ARCHITECTS.
Página 1110 - a holy man who was frequently favored with interviews with our Saviour, and who on one of these occasions made an uncouth sketch of the Divine apparition, which was long reserved as a relic in the Convent of the Incarnation at Avila.
Página 1133 - ... Alexander, a jovial attorney and loyalist during the Civil Wars, whose bacchanalian vein is said to have done good service to his cause. I have looked through his volume, but can find little in it except noise and smartness ; though there is a tone of sincerity that does him honor.
Página 1014 - His canvass was six yards high by only three wide, and his subject nothing more nor less than Charles II. and his court receiving the sacerdotal benediction at the dedication of the altar. From these unpromising materials he produced a work of great power and splendour, and one of the most interesting pictures which has been spared to the desolate Escorial.
Página 1185 - Fabrica e solemnissimn sagrac ai> da santa basilica do Real convento que junto a villa de Mafra, escrito por Fr.
Página 1139 - San Pedro Nolasco finding the choir of his convent occupied by the Virgin and a company of angels (in a fine picture by Boccanegra), and San Pedro Nolasco correcting the novices, of his Order (by Salcedo), are mentioned by Mr.

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