10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEFS-DOEUVRE»
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Chambers Universal Learners' Dictionary
... chefs doeuvre of American literature. chemical, chemist see chemistry.
chemistry ['kemistri] nu (the science that deals with) the nature of substances and
the ways in which they act on, or combine with, each other: Chemistry was his
favourite ...
And it is only in this city you can see the chefs doeuvre of the Japanese lackered
ware. The grotesque daubs which we are accustomed to see in Europe bearing
the name, are no more like the genuine article, than the sign of the Blue Pig Is ...
of all the t.hings he had seen, ending with— Tell 15. 1 have crossed the Alps and
the Apennines ; I have been at the Jardin des Plantee; at the museum arranged
by Buffon ; at the Louvre, among the chefs-doeuvre of sculpture and the ...
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The fine arts in Italy in their religious aspect: letters ...
... are here incompatible, certainly art, history and antiquity ought to prevail in the
Pantheon of Agrippa. Happy were it if this incompatibility struck us nowhere else !
In my next letter, I shall say a few words about Raphael and his chefs doeuvre.
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Style and Rhetoric: And Other Papers
But Aristotle wrote his Essay on the Greek Tragedy just a century after the chefs-
doeuvre of that tragedy had been published. If, therefore, it is sometimes requisite
for the proper explanation even of a law or legal usage that we should go to its ...
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THE MONTH: A MAGAZINE AND REVIEW.
... Germany, Spain, and Portugal had opened to him their treasures. The chefs-
doeuvre of our own language were familiar to him. He had studied the sacred
Scriptures, the Fathers, and general history. Reboul was a man of letters." (Introd.
p.
... raised to adorn the front of years during which the Horses of Lysip- the Temple
of Peace. pus adorned the great oriental capital, For five generations these chefs
doeuvre there can hardly here be even allusion of Greek genius were objects of ...
James Manning Sherwood, 1870
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Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition, the Metropolitan ...
102 1945 Paris, Musée du Louvre, Chefs dŒuvre de la Peinture, no. 110 1970-
1971 Leningrad, Moscow, and Madrid, Impressionnistes Français, no. 53
Selected Bibliography M.L. Bataille and Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Marisut.
catalogue ...
Anne Distel, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1974
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A Rough Sketch of Modern Paris: Or, Letters on Society, ...
Before I quit a subject so interesting in every respect, I ought to mention, that this
assemblage of the chefs-doeuvre of former times, begins already to hold out the
promise of improving the taste of modern painters. I saw artists of both sexes, ...
John Gustavus Lemaistre, 1803
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The fine arts in Italy in their religious aspect, letters ...
... are here incompatible, certainly art, history and antiquity ought to prevail in the
Pantheon of Agrippa. Happy were it if this incompatibility struck us nowhere else !
In my next letter, I shall say a few words about Eaphael and his chefs doeuvre.
Athanase Josué Coquerel, 1859
