 This, then, the reader must always keep in mind when he is examining for himself any examples of cinquecento work. When it has been done by a truly great man, whose life and strength could not be oppressed, and who turned to good account the whole science...  The Works of John Ruskin - Page 19by John Ruskin - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 560 pages
...completed by Alessandro Leopardi. The figure looks as if it were riding into space. " I do not believe that there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world than the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo Colleoni. " Ruskin. " To make the statue Verocchio came to Venice,... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1878 - 236 pages
...Bartolomeo Colleoni, of which Mr. Ruskin says, with slight and pardonable exaggeration, " I do not believe that there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world." A short ?' ' ' " brings us to the Arsenal, now desolate and VENICE TO VER.ONA. silent, but once the... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1881 - 600 pages
...equestrian statue in Venice, Italy, designed by Andrea Verrocchio (1431M488). 43* " I do not believe that there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world." Ruakin. Basil, St. See ST. BASIL. Bass Rock. A fortress on the Frith of Forth, near Edinburgh. It is... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 344 pages
...pedestal is also by Alessandro. The figure looks as if it were riding into space. ' I do not believe that there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world than the equestrian statue ofBartolommeoColleoni.' A'ush'tt. ' To make the statue Verocchio came to Venice,... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 200 pages
...pedestal is also by Alessandro. The figure looks as if it were riding into space. ' 1 do not believe that there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world than the equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni.' Ruskin. ' To make the statue Verocchio came to Venice,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 644 pages
...When it has been done by a truly great man, whose life and strength could not be oppressed, and who turned to good account the whole science of his day,...before these pages are printed, there will be a cast in England. But when the cinque-cento work has been done by those meaner men, who, in the Gothic times,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 696 pages
...When it has been done by a truly great man, whose life and strength could not be oppressed, and who turned to good account the whole science of his day,...before these pages are printed, there will be a cast iu England. But when the cinque-cento work has been done by those meaner men, who, in the Gothic times,... | |
 | Daniel Pidgeon - 1895 - 172 pages
...Florentine, Andrea Verrochio, who visited Venice for the purpose. Of it Ruskin says : " I do not believe there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world ; " while a greater critic of Italian sculpture remarks : " The stalwart figure of Colleoni, clad in... | |
 | American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society - 1913 - 956 pages
...that of Gon. Bartolommeo Colleoni in Venice by Verrocchio. Of this, Ruskin said: " I do not believe there is a more glorious work of sculpture existing in the world than the equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni." America waited long for her first equestrian statue.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 344 pages
...When it has been done by a truly great man, whose life and strength could not be oppressed, and who turned to good account the whole science of his day,...believe, for instance, that there is a more glorious work d [He will find plenty of words now, of extreme irreverence towards Leonardo, Michael Angelo, and Ghirlandajo.... | |
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