Not only an antique but one of the most famous and valuable paintings in the world.
You see how my taste seems to run--world-renowned paintings of almost inestimable value, rare carvings, tapestries and statues.
Sebastian Markheim is one of the greatest collectors of antique paintings in the world.
Why, Alicia, child, that is one of the most famous paintings in the world.
People don't lock oil paintings up for the night with the silver spoons, you know.
Every one of these paintings that I have recovered is in the hands of the Italian Government--where they all both morally and legally belong!
Some was used at the time of the exhibition of paintings which took place in the 'winter garden.
I promised this gentleman to do the drawing free of charge, for he will sell a number of my paintings to his friends, and will help us with the forthcoming exhibition of my works.
Certain paintings by my husband looked so much like the work of his celebrated uncle that in America a number of "Steinheils" have been sold as "Meissoniers.
My paintings will probably be exhibited at the 'Georges Petit Gallery,'" said M.
Alas, I had to rehang the paintings by Daubigny, Corot and Meissonier where I had found them, close to the frieze, where it was impossible to enjoy their beauty.
One morning my husband, whom I had asked to join me at Bellevue, telephoned from Paris, where he had remained to put the finishing touches to a number of paintings destined for the proposed exhibition of his works.
He shows me a letter from the Czar which Prince Urusoff handed to him an hour ago, and two paintingsrepresenting the arrival of the President at Kronstadt, also sent by the Russian Emperor.
Of his water-colour paintings and of the Liber Studiorum it is impossible to speak too highly; he created the modern school of water-colour painting, and his works in oil have influenced the art of the nineteenth century.
He drew inspirations for his paintings from the writings of Milton and Virgil, with which he was very familiar.
Paintings by him are in the National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum.
Trumbull must not be judged as an artist by his large paintingsin the Capitol at Washington, the commission for which he did not receive until 1817.
Cromwell, on becoming Protector, stopped all the sales of royalpaintings and property.
The Duke of Buccleuch has a noble series of Hilliard's and Oliver's paintings of this kind.
G] One of the best of Hogarth's life stories is the Marriage a la Mode, the originalpaintings of which are in the National Gallery; they appeared in prints in 1745.
The wood is covered with fine stucco, or gesso, to the thickness of cardboard, as is always the case with old paintings on panels, and generally when on stone.
You have seen the paintingsof the Princess Louise.
It was gaily furnished in the French style, and though years had dimmed the gilding and the fanciful paintings and the rich satin draperies, it was full of a reminiscent charm Jane could not escape.
And it was not difficult to adapt herself to the new home, with its long galleries and large rooms full of beautiful paintings and handsome furniture.
We were immediately attracted by three paintings on the wall.
The paintings were formerly exhibited outside on the walls of the gate tower.
Fragments of these dating from the beginning of the fourteenth century have come down to our own days, adorned with paintings from the hands of the greatest masters.
Illustration: ZARA] The Cities of the Sun Stories of Ancient America founded on historical incidents in the Book of Mormon By Elizabeth Rachel Cannon Illustrated from paintings by Geo.
These paintings depict the principal events in my father's life.
Terror filled the great house, with its spacious rooms hung with embroideries, beautiful with paintings and statues, its rare glass, and its treasures of gold and of amber.
Their walls and ceilings were adorned with paintings commemorating the triumphs of the kings in war and in the chase.
Two hundred and three reproductions of paintings and sculpture add to the interest of the work.
The walls of the lofty apartment were covered with plates of gold for half their height, and above these were paintings in which the king was depicted slaying lions in hand-to-hand combat, or driving his enemies before him in his war chariot.
We had a mahogany-top counter, oil paintings on the wall, and bin fronts of Chinamen, etc.
The paintings which adorn the chapel are by Philippe of Champagne and his nephew, Jean Baptiste.
The vestibule of the ground floor contains fragments of ancient marbles, casts from the temple of Egina and of the Parthenon, clever, curious copies of paintings discovered at Pompeii, etc.
It is not until an artist is dead that his paintings are held worthy of being transported to that national Walhalla of pictorial heroes, the Louvre.
If the visitor will wait in this church until dusk, when all the tawdry paintings vanish into darkness, then the great columns will stand out in all their dignity, and the noble cornice cast a splendid shadow over the pillars of the huge hall.
It should be a source of comfort to those who get tired with looking upward at pictures in high places, if they will but remember that their beloved paintings have often been protected from the restorer by their high position.
The monumental sculpture is not so fine as in Santa Croce, but on the other hand there are some splendid paintings and frescoes—amongst others Cimabue’s famous picture of the Virgin seated on a throne.
Rossetti took him into the studio, and showed him the paintings he had on his easels.
Several of the later paintings he had seen and discussed many times in Rossetti’s studio.
We dined together in free and easy manner in his studio, surrounded by his beautiful paintings and studies.
I also saw several otherpaintings of extreme beauty, but which I have no time to mention at present.
The young biographer wrote to every one who he thought might possess drawings or paintings by Rossetti—and among others he applied to Tennyson.
The passage widened, and the prince was now in a brilliant hall, decorated with paintings and gildings.
Nor has she been backward as a patron of artists; her Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 brought together the finest collection of ancient and modern paintings the provinces have known.
Then there is the Royal Institution, from designs by Sir Charles Barry, in the Doric style, containing a gallery of paintings and a School of Design, with a statue of Dr.
Bartlett was very prolific and left to the archives of his work many as yet unpublished manuscripts, including poetry, short stories, and novels, as well as more than a thousand paintings and illustrations.
Most noteworthy among the paintings illustrating the history of Moscow are:--The murder of Alexis by Ivan the Terrible, by J.
Behind the ikonostas are some extraordinary muralpaintings of the Tsars Michael and Alexis, founders of the cathedral.
The central one, that dedicated to the Virgin, has a high tower and wonderful spire, the paintings on its internal converging sides adding to its extravagant proportions.
The paintings at the east-end are on a gold ground, at one period a prevalent fashion with Russian ikon painters.
The decorations are for the most part quite modern, and the paintings by an Italian.
The semicircular roof which covers the nave is adorned with paintings illustrative of the life of the above-mentioned apostle.
These were a jumble of bric-a-brac, old furniture of doubtful value, stained prints, and one or two blackened oil paintings in tarnished frames.
It is one of the most magnificent modern paintings I have ever seen.
Of these paintings he remembered much, but of her speech little, for she was silent as she worked.
It could be applied, she felt, with equal truth to all his large paintingsbut one --the Danaë.
Now, Farraday," he cried, "you are going to see one of the finest modern paintings in the world.
The invitations sent out to the invited friends can be written on cards brown-tinted like the bark of the trees, and can be very artistically decorated with the furry blooms, or with paintings of them.
The dinner cards showedpaintings of Indian heads and the favors were little paper canoes.
Small leather calendars can be made, also heart-shaped leather pen-wipers with small paintings on them.
The story of the founder is most quaintly told inpaintings on panels round one of the rooms, and there are pictures and memorials of Luther and of Friedrich Johann and his wife Sibylla over and over again.
Yesterday was Sunday, and we had three services in the chapel, which is painted all over with figures of saints by the same man who executed the bad paintings of the Scottish kings at Holyrood.
There are curious paintings of Cadwallador and of Henry VIII.
Richly gilded, with fine paintings on the panels, with delicate Gothic pinnacles and tabernacle work, they and the metal screens which half hide them do much to make Spanish churches the most interesting in the world.
When Dom Manoel was enriching the old Templar church at Thomar with gilding and with statues of saints, he also caused large paintings to be placed round the outer wall.
That the book may be more complete there has been added a short account of some of the church plate and paintings which still survive, as well as of the tile work which is so universal and so characteristic.
The Jesus Church at Setubal, built by Justa Rodrigues, Dom Manoel's nurse, has fifteen paintings in incongruous gilt frames and hung high up on the north wall of the church, which also have something of the same style.
And yet there are scattered about the country not a few paintings of considerable merit.
Some paintings in São Francisco Evora seem to be by the same hand.
Even this is plain, and it owes most of its richness to the paintings and to the beautiful tiles which cover part of the walls.
With the heads of this factory, Francisco Brandão and Rodrigo Ruy de Almada, Albert Dürer was on friendly terms, sending them etchings and paintings in return for wine and southern rarities.
Do you mean those little paintings that are sometimes so valuable?
I suppose they arepaintings of celebrated individuals--kings, queens, and like that?
As soon as I gave him the cases containing the miniatures the young man hurried off in the cutter, stating that the sooner the critic had a chance to see the paintings the better.
It contains some interesting portraits of royal and distinguished folk dating from the time of Charles I, but how the town became possessed of these paintings no man knoweth.
If curious mural paintings adorned the walls, the hideous whitewash soon obliterated every trace and produced "those modest hues which the native appearance of the stone so pleasingly bestows.
The George Inn has some interesting paintings which were probably brought from Eythrope House on its demolition in 1810, and the "Bull's Head" has some fine beams and panelling.
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