 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 570 pages
...out and placed in the palace of the Quirinal, 1711, where it is still seen with this epigraphe : " Opus Melotii Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit vel illustravit." Some heads of the apostles were likewise sawed out and placed in the Vatican. His taste... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 564 pages
...cue out and placed in the palace of the Quirinal, 1711, where it is still seen with this epigraphe: " Opus Melotii Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit vel illustravit." Some heads of the apostles were likewise sawed out and placed in the Vatican. His taste... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 572 pages
...out and placed in the palace of the Quirimil, 171 1, where it is still seen with this epigraphe : " Opus Melotii Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit vel illustravit." Some heads of the apostles were likewise sawed out and placed in the Vatican. His taste... | |
 | Luigi Antonio Lanzi - Painting - 1828 - 512 pages
..." the figure of Christ is so admirably foreshortened as to appear to pierce the vault ; and in the same manner the angels are seen sweeping through the...summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit vel illustravit." Several heads of the apostles which surrounded it, and were likewise cut away, were deposited... | |
 | Luigi Lanzi - Painting - 1833 - 508 pages
...weggenommen und in den Palazzo Quirinale gebracht, im Jahr 1711, wo man es noch mit der Aufschrift sieht: Opus Melotii Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit, vel illustravit. Einige Apostelköpfe um dasselbe her wurden ebenfalls ausgesägt und in den Vatican gebracht.... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 528 pages
...out, and placed in the palace of the Quirinal, 1711, where it is still seen with this epigraph : " Opus Melotii Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit vel iltustravit." Some heads of the apostles were likewise cut out, and placed in the Vatican. His taste... | |
 | Joseph Alfred X. Michiels - 1853 - 282 pages
...scier cette peinture pour la transporter au palais Quirinal. On lit auprès l'inscription suivante : « Opus Melotii, Foroliviensis, qui summos fornices pingendi artem vel primus invenit, vel illitstravit. » II ya une assez grande analogie entce le style de Melozzo et celui de Mantegna. La... | |
 | James Ward - Painting - 1920 - 388 pages
...that " the figure of Christ is so admirably foreshortened as to appear to pierce the vault, and in the same manner the angels are seen sweeping through the field of air in two opposite directions." This work was executed for Cardinal Riario, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, about the year 1472, but in 1711 the... | |
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Some heads of the apostles were likewise sawed out and placed in the Vatican. His taste 'on the whole resembles that of Mantegna and the Padouan schools more than any other. The heads are well formed, well coloured, well turned, and almost always foreshortened... 