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... appears to me , is to take not a rational , but rather a most irrational as well as a most irre- verent , view of the question ; it is to confine the pleasure and improve- ment to be derived from works of Art within very narrow bounds ...
... appears to me , is to take not a rational , but rather a most irrational as well as a most irre- verent , view of the question ; it is to confine the pleasure and improve- ment to be derived from works of Art within very narrow bounds ...
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... appears to me , that all sacred representations , in as far as they appeal to sentiment and imagination , resolve themselves into two great classes , which I shall call the DEVO- TIONAL and the HISTORICAL . Devotional pictures are those ...
... appears to me , that all sacred representations , in as far as they appeal to sentiment and imagination , resolve themselves into two great classes , which I shall call the DEVO- TIONAL and the HISTORICAL . Devotional pictures are those ...
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... appears of the natural size ; as in the Madonna del Donatore of Raphael3 , where Sigismond Conti is almost the finest and most striking part of that inestimable picture : and in the Madonna of the Meyer family by Holbein . When a bishop ...
... appears of the natural size ; as in the Madonna del Donatore of Raphael3 , where Sigismond Conti is almost the finest and most striking part of that inestimable picture : and in the Madonna of the Meyer family by Holbein . When a bishop ...
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... appear profane to some , but the comprehension of the whole universe within the pale of Christianity strikes me as being in the most catholic , as well as in the most poetical , spirit . It is in devotional subjects that we commonly ...
... appear profane to some , but the comprehension of the whole universe within the pale of Christianity strikes me as being in the most catholic , as well as in the most poetical , spirit . It is in devotional subjects that we commonly ...
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... , Bishop . GENOA : St. George , St. Laurence , Martyrs . The Saints who do not appear in these volumes , will be found in the " Legends of the Monastic Orders . " GHENT : St. Bavon , Prince and Hermit . GRENOBLE LEGENDARY ART .
... , Bishop . GENOA : St. George , St. Laurence , Martyrs . The Saints who do not appear in these volumes , will be found in the " Legends of the Monastic Orders . " GHENT : St. Bavon , Prince and Hermit . GRENOBLE LEGENDARY ART .
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