Exhibition of Works by ..., Том 34,Часть 1903

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Wm. Clowes and Sons, 1903
 

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Стр. 12 - THERE is a glorious City in the Sea. The Sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing ; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream...
Стр. 19 - And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Стр. 16 - Daughter of Henry IV. of France and Maria de' Medici ; b. 1609 ; m. Charles I., 1625 ; d. 1669.
Стр. 25 - On the right a large barge manned with soldiers, into which an officer is stepping from a boat. On the left other barges, leading the eye in lines of perspective towards the centre.
Стр. 48 - ... temples and buildings with warriors and elegantly dressed ladies seated in their courts or looking out from their balconies and windows ; griffins and sphinxes ; sea-pieces with dolphins and other fish ; and landscapes with naturalistic flowers and foliage. The reliefs in painted gesso duro are, in some respects, even more remarkable...
Стр. 48 - But the most astonishing examples of the sculptor's art are supplied by the remains of a series of ivory statuettes of leaping youths, in which untrammelled freedom of action is coupled not only with fine modelling of the muscular contours of the body but with the indication of the most delicate details such as the veins on the back of the hands.
Стр. 12 - View looking over a wide expanse of heath, with some figures on a road which crosses it; a house surrounded by trees is seen in the middle distance; blue sky, with clouds.
Стр. 17 - They are represented in the clouds, most of them with musical instruments; the Sun in the distance; on the 1.
Стр. 48 - ... complicated drainage system with shafts rising to the upper floors, and sanitary arrangements ahead of anything that was devised till quite recent times.
Стр. 49 - ... fineness of fabric, for grace of form—in many cases pointing to prototypes in metal—and delicacy of colouring, has hardly been surpassed.

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