Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 pagini |
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... paintings to popular sensibility . They were , after all , only one side of the great tide of romanticism that swept Europe about the turn of the century ; a tide not new , but increased in force and appar- ency . If people painted and ...
... paintings to popular sensibility . They were , after all , only one side of the great tide of romanticism that swept Europe about the turn of the century ; a tide not new , but increased in force and appar- ency . If people painted and ...
Pagina 290
... painted with architecture : almost all the insides of the houses are in the same manner ; and , what is very particular , the general ground of all the painting is red . Besides this temple , they make out very plainly an amphitheatre ...
... painted with architecture : almost all the insides of the houses are in the same manner ; and , what is very particular , the general ground of all the painting is red . Besides this temple , they make out very plainly an amphitheatre ...
Pagina 408
... paint- ings and its friezes , preserved in the darkness of centuries of oblivion . The painted decorations of the rooms are most lovely , even now , when blurred and defaced by mishandling , clumsy excavation and restorations , and the ...
... paint- ings and its friezes , preserved in the darkness of centuries of oblivion . The painted decorations of the rooms are most lovely , even now , when blurred and defaced by mishandling , clumsy excavation and restorations , and the ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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