 Thought, with them, slumbers; they walk or look straight before them with the coolness and placidity of virginal purity; in vain will education with all its animated elegancies rival the divine uncouthness of their gravity. This is why I so highly prize...  Italy: Rome and Naples; Florence and Venice - Pagina 121door Hippolyte Taine - 1871Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 414 pagina’s
...experienced; as yet there is no accepted type which bodies forth in conventional beauty the budding i aspirations of his breast; the greater his timidity...forms of the ancient style are still perpetuated. Eoselli, Piero di Cosimo, Credi and Botticelli do not desire to leave it; they retain dry outlines,... | |
 | Carl Hammond Philander Thurston - 1916 - 396 pagina’s
...early training in metal work."— IT. M. Rossetti. "It is the Renaissance in its dawn, a dawn grey and somewhat cool, as in the spring when the rosy...of the clouds begins to tinge a pale crystal sky." — H. Taine. "All that industry, all that love of his occupation, afl that talent even, can do for... | |
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