Tuscan Sculptors: Their Lives, Works, and Times, Volume 2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864 |
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Page 37 - Tanto, eh' io non 1' avea sì forte udito : O Capaneo, in ciò che non s' ammorza La tua superbia, sei tu più punito : Nullo martirio, fuor che la tua rabbia, Sarebbe al tuo furor dolor compito. Poi si rivolse a me con miglior labbia, Dicendo : Quel fu 1* un de
Page 14 - ... he had taken up in his pocket, turned with a questioning and doubtless a slightly sarcastic expression in his face, to the critic, who responded, " Bravo ! bravo ! you have given it life.
Page 196 - Hominis autem imaginem gypso e facie ipsa primus omnium expressit ceraque in earn formam gypsi infusa emendare instituit Lysistratus Sicyonius frater Lysippi, de quo diximus.
Page 223 - Ravenna caused the head of the poet which had adorned his sepulchre to be taken therefrom, and that it came into the possession of the famous sculptor, Gian Bologna, who left it at his death, in 1606, to his pupil Pietro Tacca. " One day Tacca showed it, with other curiosities, to the Duchess Sforza, who, having wrapped it in a scarf of green cloth, carried it away, and God knows into whose hands the precious object has fallen, or where it is to be found On account of its singular beauty, it had...
Page 112 - His statement of the origin of his family is that " Julius Caesar had a chief and valorous captain named Fiorino da Cellino, from a castle situated four miles from Monte Fiascone. This Fiorino having pitched his camp below Fiesole, where Florence now stands, in order to be near the river Arno, for the convenience of the army, the soldiers and other persons, when they had the occasion to visit him, said to each other,
Page 131 - By almost superhuman efforts he remedied the evil, and again the bronze flowed ; he prayed earnestly, and when the mould was filled he writes : " I fell on my knees and thanked God with all my heart, after which I ate a hearty meal with my assistants, and it being then two hours before dawn, went to bed with a light heart, and slept as sweetly as if I had never been ill in all my life.
Page 224 - It has been supposed that this head was the original mask from which the casts now existing are derived. Mr. Seymour Kirkup, in a note on this passage from Cinelli, says that " there are three masks of Dante at Florence, all of which have been judged by the first Roman and Florentine sculptors to have been taken from life, [that is, from the face after death,] — the slight differences noticeable between them being such as might occur in casts made from the original mask.
Page 60 - My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and my worldly possessions to my nearest of kin :" then admonishing his attendants, he said, " In your passage through this life, remember the sufferings of Jesus Christ.
Page 37 - ... Michael Angelo's works,' remarks Mr. Perkins, ' there is probably none more beautiful than the sleeping prisoner, who, worn out with futile efforts to escape, rests with his noble head thrown back so as to expose his throat, his left arm raised and bent over his head, and his right arm reposing on his breast. In striking contrast to this image of sleep, the other prisoner is struggling to rend his bonds asunder, every muscle in action, and every limb contorted. His head is covered with thick...
Page 185 - Alliglicrius florentinus et exul immeritus, ac universaliter omnes Tusci, qui pacem desiderant terrae, osculantur pedes».