10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CINQUECENTIST»
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The drawings of the Florentine painters
Then it should be noted that there are six figures instead of eight, as in the last
design ; and this clearness and perspicuity is certainly preferable, particularly
from the point of view of the Cinquecentist, whose one aim was already to fill a ...
2
Walks through the studii of the sculptors at Rome
Leaving to inferi- our minds the unenviable singularity, the result of what
Longinus calls a cacozealous ambition, of a- dopting the faults as well as the
perfections of the Cinquecentist School, Thorwaldsen, with a discrimination
peculiarly his ...
3
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
Whenever we pass from the Cinquecentist room in a gallery to the baroque, the
surprise we feel is that clear, obvious juxtaposition ceases and that colours seem
to rest on a common ground in which they sometimes sink into almost complete ...
4
The Archaeological Journal
The series of fac-simile drawings from windows of the mediaeval and
cinquecentist periods, traced and coloured by the lamented author of " Hints on
Glass-Painting " with a fidelity and skill rarely, if ever, equalled, formed
collectively an ...
5
The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, ...
... too often might have been charged with seeming more like some temple of the
gods than the home of an English family. It may be suggested that, in Acts chief
elements of plan, the Cinquecentist Mansion on Italian soil would in all
probability ...
6
Guide to St. Petersburgh: A Journal of Travels to and from ...
the centre of German civilization, and the favourite daughter of the Elbe. I love the
quiet bustle of its streets, the systematic hilarity of its people, and the sober nature
of its diversions. Its stately and cinquecentist mansions bring back interesting ...
Augustus Bozzi Granville,
1835
7
Principles of Art History: The Problem of the Development of ...
same bears the stamp of the Cinquecentist, that is, the man of the silhouette. And
if Andrea is accorded a specifically painterly talent, we must certainly admit that
he tones down the outline more than the others and that there is quite a peculiar
...
8
An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
F. cinnamome, L., G. κινν μωμoν, Heb. qinn mn. cinquecentist. It. artistof 16 cent. (
mil cinquecento). Cinque Ports. Orig. (12 cent.) Hastings, Sandwich, Dover,
Romney, Hythe.F.cinq,L. quinque,five(see quinary). Cf.cinquefoil(bot. & her.).
cipher ...
... to the oliveskinned men in the frescoed gloom of some Umbrian church—Acey
had the calm and somber eye of a cinquecentist. She was talking on the phone to
Esther Winship. Esther said, “Dear god why?” “Because it's easier and quicker.
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Art History as Cultural History: Warburg's Projects
One might say, “colla licenza degli anteriori.” It is significant that Vasari, a
genuine Cinquecentist, was an enthusiastic admirer of the “baruffa bellissima” of
this Slaughter of the Innocents. He praises in particular one horrible motif: an
infant that, ...