The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Հատոր 4T. Boys, 1823 |
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... APELLES AND PROTOGENES . The pencil of Apelles , the first of Grecian painters , was famous for drawing fine lines , and from this cir- cumstance arose the proverb , " no day without a line . " Being highly delighted with a picture of ...
... APELLES AND PROTOGENES . The pencil of Apelles , the first of Grecian painters , was famous for drawing fine lines , and from this cir- cumstance arose the proverb , " no day without a line . " Being highly delighted with a picture of ...
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... Apelles must have been there , for so finished a work could be produced by no other person . Protogenes , however , drew himself a finer line of another colour ; and as he was going away , ordered the old woman to show that line to Apelles ...
... Apelles must have been there , for so finished a work could be produced by no other person . Protogenes , however , drew himself a finer line of another colour ; and as he was going away , ordered the old woman to show that line to Apelles ...
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... Apelles , with some anger looked out from the canvas , and reproved him in these words , which are also become a proverb , ne sutor ultra crepidam . " 66 In finishing a drawing of a horse , in the portraiture of which he much excelled ...
... Apelles , with some anger looked out from the canvas , and reproved him in these words , which are also become a proverb , ne sutor ultra crepidam . " 66 In finishing a drawing of a horse , in the portraiture of which he much excelled ...
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... Apelles . Alexander appears to have been a patron of the fine arts more from vanity than taste ; and it is related , as an instance of those freedoms which Apelles was permitted to use with him , that when on one occasion he was talking ...
... Apelles . Alexander appears to have been a patron of the fine arts more from vanity than taste ; and it is related , as an instance of those freedoms which Apelles was permitted to use with him , that when on one occasion he was talking ...
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... Apelles , Zeuxis , and other great artists , they might still have remained to us ; a new polish would have renewed their fading beauties , and restored them to immortal youth . Some curious and playful effects have been pro- duced in ...
... Apelles , Zeuxis , and other great artists , they might still have remained to us ; a new polish would have renewed their fading beauties , and restored them to immortal youth . Some curious and playful effects have been pro- duced in ...
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The Percy Anecdotes. Original and Select: Georg III. & Family - Fine Arts. 4 Sholto and Reuben Percy Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1823 |
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