Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)Spooner, Shearjashub
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
Spooner, Shearjashub
Art -- Anecdotes; Artists -- Anecdotes
Beaumont, Sir George--his Opinion of the Importance of the
Fine Arts, i, 7;
his Enthusiasm and munificent gift to the English National
Gallery, i, 7.
Beauty, Ideal, as Conceived and Practiced by the Greatest
Masters, ii, 247.
Belzoni--his Travels in Egypt, iii, 25.
The Belzoni Sarcophagus, ii, 194.
Bernazzano, the Zeuxis of Italy, ii, 140.
Bernini, the Cav., i, 101;
his Precocity, i, 101;
his Bust of Charles I. and his Prediction, i, 101;
Bernini and Louis XIV., i, 102;
his Triumphal Visit to Paris, i, 102;
the Medal struck in his Honor, i, 103;
his Works, i, 103;
his Restoration of the Verospi Hercules, i, 104;
Lanzi's Critique, i, 103;
his Love of Splendor and his Riches, i, 104;
Bernini and Urban VIII., iii, 256.
Blake, William--his Enthusiasm, Eccentricity, and Poverty, i, 3;
his melancholy yet triumphant Death, 1, 4.
Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery, iii, 305.
Bridge, Trajan's, across the Danube, i, 164.
Bridge, Mandrocles', across the Bosphorus, ii, 162.
Bridge, the Britannia Railway Tubular, iii 46;
the Tubes, iii, 47;
the Piers, iii, 48;
Construction of the Tubes, iii, 49;
Floating the Tubes, iii, 50;
Raising the Tubes, iii, 52;
the prodigious Hydraulic Presses used, iii, 53;
Bursting of one, iii, 55;
Sir Francis Head's Description, iii, 56;
Cost of the Structure, iii, 57.
Brower, Adrian, iii, 182;
his Escape from a Cruel Master, iii, 183;
Brower, the Duke d'Aremberg, and Rubens, iii, 184;
his Death, iii, 184;
his Works, iii, 185.
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