 The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the chapel of the High Altar, in the Abbey of Florence, where he executed many works considered extremely fine.-)- Among these, an Annunciation is particularly admired ; the expression of fear and astonishment...  Giotto - Page 59by Harry Quilter - 1880 - 146 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Giorgio Vasari - 1850 - 530 pages
...the High Altar, in the Abbey of Florence, where he executed many works considered extremely fine.f Among these, an Annunciation is particularly admired...by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues to be, preserved, rather from the respect felt for the work of so distinguished a man, than from any other... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 pages
...feature in his style, Vasari enumerates an Annunciation in the Abbey of Florence, now lost, in which " the expression of fear and astonishment in the countenance...Virgin, when receiving the salutation of Gabriel, was most vividly depicted : she appeared suffering the very height of terror, and almost ready to take... | |
 | Giorgio Vasari, Jean Paul Richter - 1855 - 540 pages
...Ser Brunetto Latini, master of Dante, and of Messer Corso Donati, an illustrious citizen of that day. The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the...by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues to be, preserved, rather from the respect felt for the work of so distinguished a man, than from any other... | |
 | Giorgio Vasari - 1896 - 474 pages
...Ser Bmnetto Latini, master of Dante, and of Messer Corso Donati, an illustrious citizen of that day.5 The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the...by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues to be, preserved, rather from the respect felt for the work of so distinguished a man, than from any other... | |
 | Giorgio Vasari - 1897 - 444 pages
...Brunetto Latini, master of Dante, and '}, of Messer Corso Donati, an illustrious citizen of that day. 5 The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the...seems almost ready to take flight. The altar-piece of LJ..H, chapel is also by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues; 1 to be, preserved, rather from... | |
 | Giorgio Vasari - 1902 - 426 pages
...Donati, an illustrious citizen of that day.* The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the chapel V of the High Altar, in the Abbey of Florence, where...by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues to be, preserved, rather from the respect felt for the work of so distinguished a man, than from any other... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 752 pages
...arrangement of colour and sincerity of gesture, than on refinement of drawing in the countenance. 1 ["The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the...of terror, and seems almost ready to take flight" (vol. ip 95, Bohn). The pictures here described by Vasari are lost.] 2 [Midsummer Night' '* Dream,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 746 pages
...arrangement of colour and sincerity of gesture, than on refinement of drawing in the countenance. 1 ["The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the...of terror, and seems almost ready to take flight" (vol. ip 95, Bohn). The pictures here described by Vasari are lost.] 2 [Midsummer Night' t Dream, ii.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 750 pages
...High Altar, in the Abbey of Florence, where he executed many works considered extremely fine. .Vinous1 these, an Annunciation is particularly admired ; the...of terror, and seems almost ready to take flight" (vol. ip 95, Bohn). The pictures here described by Vasari are lost.] 2 [Midtummer Night' t Dream, ii.... | |
 | Giorgio Vasari - 1923 - 420 pages
...is particularly admired ; the expression of fear and astonishment in the countenance of the Virgi^ when receiving the salutation of Gabriel, is vividly...by Giotto ; but this has been, and continues to be, preserved, rather from the respect felt for the work of so distinguished a man, than from any other... | |
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