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...ched the highest prices ever paid in auctions. Despite his connections with leading painters, gallery owners, art professors and critics - his broth... .... Leonardo was born out of wedlock but was raised by his real father, a wealthy Florentine notary. He served at least ten years (1466-1476) as G...

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...s for more and better creation or work. (Applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, spiritualists.) My Syndrome: Is characterized by nose... ... depraved, said Rousseau). (Let's grade the degradation.) Dante was Florentine (but not Smarandache)! I am a model of unmodeled artist. An an...

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...hearts, If bounties hand with all her beauteous parts, Poets, or Painters would to pourtray prove, Should they seeke earth below, or heav'n... ...age soever, may in any sort further or help them to vanquish. The ancient Florentines were so far from desiring any advantage of their enemies by su... ...ond their purpose? The like wee see to bee in painting, for sometimes the Painters hand shall draw certaine lines or draughts, so farre exceeding his... ...ed many fond oversights in the establishing of his late tyrannie upon the Florentines, but this the chiefest, that having received the first advertis... ...aving received the first advertisement of the Monopolies and Complots the Florentines contrived against him, by Mathew, surnamed Morozo, one of the ... ..., that in other Cities of Greece they went to seeke for Rhetoricians, for Painters, and for Musicians; whereas in Lacedemon, they sought for Law-giv... ...uses only. CHAPTER XXVII: OF FRIENDSHIP ONSIDERING the proceeding of a Painters worke I have, a desire hath possessed mee to imitate him: He make... ...l of silver hold. You would say, we have the Coach-makers, Carpenters, and Painters, who have gone up thither, and there have placed engines with div...

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...ppointed like their predecessors. In the year following, Americus Vespucius, a Florentine who was in the service of the king of Portugal, set out upon... ...America up to the time of the settlement of the country by the whites. Mexican painters were also employed to make pictures of the Spaniards and of th...

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... the young man hesitated a little, and then he confessed that the group of painters he preferred, on the whole, to all others, was that of the early F... ... painters he preferred, on the whole, to all others, was that of the early Florentines. I was so struck with this that I stopped short. “That was exac... ...de Salvi. He goes to see her every evening and stays half the night; these Florentines keep the most extraordinary hours. I remember, towards 3 A.M., ... ...as always at home in the evening, and they all used to come. They were old Florentine names. But she used to let me stay after them all; she thought a... ...I grasped his arm, and we stopped, going on with our talk like a couple of Florentines. “Do you wish to marry her?” He looked away, without meeting my... ...hese three days. Delightful old Italian town— but it lacks the charm of my Florentine secret. I wrote that last entry five days ago, late at night, af...

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..., before Everardo dé Medici, gonfaloniero of Florence in 1314, were simple Florentine merchants who became very rich. The first personage in this fami... ...ta- tion to that of Grand-duke of T uscany. From Lorenzo are descended the Florentine Brutus Lorenzino, who killed Alessandro, Cosmo, the first grand-... ...res of her childhood, mixed up as they were with the bloody efforts of the Florentines, 16 Catherine dé Medici then seeking to recover their liberty ... ...h, could rival Catherine, and was far more of a great lady than the little Florentine. The daughter of the Medici was also outdone by Queen Eleonore, ... ...s court of France (not excepting that of Louis XIV .), the daughter of the Florentine grocers, who was richer and more illustrious through the house o... ...eart of old Paris would have offered precious scenes and tones of color to painters. What a forest of crossbeams supported the mills with their huge s... ...erved— resemble at that great height the fantastic decorations which scene-painters give to a fairy palace at the opera. But in the courtyard, althoug... ...he tufts of blond curls which clustered on her temples. The pencil of many painters have so frequently represented this head-dress that it is thought ...

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...tle of Amboise, they came with him certain workmen, master sculptors, good painters, and masons, or architects, who ornamented the galleries with sple... ...at idle life which is the best all for those whose minds are occupied. The Florentine, out of bravado, came to the court gallantly at- tired, and from... ...mong these high-born ladies there came one day one by herself to the young Florentine, asking him why he was so shy, and if none of the court ladies c... ...e game of love, since one single day of it was worth a thousand lives. The Florentine chiselled away at his statues, thinking of his evening, and thus... ... This is the reason why all of them are accustomed to let it be taken. The Florentine has stolen a great number, and things were going on admirably, w... ...ion of that especial thing which good authors rightly find abominable. The Florentine exclaims between two hearty kisses— “Sweet one, do you love me m...

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...igris and his master, who then came for- ward. “You are, no doubt, the two painters whom Monsieur Grindot, the architect, told me to expect.” He whist... ...he architect, had received notice from him of the early arrival of the two painters sent down to finish the decorations of the chateau, the principal ... ...looking at Bridau co- quettishly. “Beauty, madame, is a sovereign whom all painters wor- ship; it has unlimited claims upon them.” “They are both char... ...alon, where he found his clerk, extremely subdued in man- ner, and the two painters, all three of them painfully self- conscious and embarrassed. Mons... ...moiselle Coralie, for he himself was secretly the Mecaenas of Mademoiselle Florentine, the first danseuse at the Gaiete. But this life and these opini... ... d’Or, “I might re-marry. A young woman would give me more children. Well, Florentine doesn’t cost me what a wife would; neither does she bore me; and... ...Florentinas y Cabirolos was neither more nor less than Mademoiselle Agathe-Florentine Cabirolle, first danseuse at the Gaiete, with whom uncle Cardot ... ...ery reparable loss of Madame Cardot, the success- ful merchant encountered Florentine as she was leaving Coulon’s dancing-class. Attracted by the beau... ...ulon’s dancing-class. Attracted by the beauty of that choregraphic flower (Florentine was then about thirteen years of age), he followed her to the ru...

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...ber solemnity. “Is music your line as well, then?” asked Aaron. “No, we’re painters. We’re going to work in Rome.” “T o earn your living?” “Not yet.” ... ... and physical and melodramatic—and then the corner house. It was a big old Florentine house, with many green shutters and wide eaves. There was a noti... ...he rather liked the far- 211 D. H. Lawrence off remoteness in the big old Florentine house: he did not mind the peculiar dark, uncosy dreariness. It ... ...e real enough, repre- senting the undaunted physical nature of the heavier Florentines. Aaron looked and looked at the three great naked men. David so... ...ay mornings. Next Saturday a string quartette, and violin solos by a young Florentine woman—a friend—very good indeed, daughter of our Professor Torto... ... Jove’s thunderbolt. Aaron’s black rod of power, blossoming again with red Florentine lilies and fierce thorns. He moved about in the splendour of his...

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...I suppose, they would go on singing, poetically symbolizing, as our modern Painters paint, when it was no longer from the in- nermost heart, or not fr... ...ugh the usual des- tinies; been twice out campaigning as a soldier for the Florentine State, been on embassy; had in his thirty-fifth year, by natural... ...nt, some considerable number of years later, is a Letter of Dante’s to the Florentine Magistrates, written in answer to a milder proposal of theirs, t... ... his death- city Ravenna: Hic claudor Dantes patriis extorris ab oris. The Florentines begged back his body, in a century after; the Ravenna people wo... ...re trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow. Raphael, the Painters tell us, is the best of all Portrait-painters withal. No most gift...

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...s the generating causes to which we owe Joseph Bridau, one of the greatest painters of the modern French school of art. Philippe, the elder of the two... ...ointed out to Philippe a plump and agile little ballet-girl whom he called Florentine, whose good graces and affection, together with the box, belonge... ...ow, in a couple of lines, we shall advise the managers to let Mademoiselle Florentine dance a particular step, and so forth. Faith, my dear boy, I’m u... ...ss in Paris. Where does one find such luck?” he said aloud. “I’ll show you Florentine’s place to-night. My Dulcinea only earns fifty francs a month at... ...s blind.” When the play was over Giroudeau took Philippe to Ma- demoiselle Florentine’s appartement, which was close to the theatre, in the rue de Cru... ...eatre, in the rue de Crussol. “We must behave ourselves,” said Giroudeau. “Florentine’s mother is here. You see, I haven’t the means to pay for one, s... ...st. “How much do you pocket in a year?” “Unfortunately, I am known only to painters. Schinner backs me; and he has got me some work at the Chateau de ... ...on the doctor’s vision, showing the loveliest virgin head that 119 Balzac painters ever dreamed of. Old Rouget, who knew the whole country-side, did ... ... aide-de-camp of the Dauphin.” After the Salon of 1823, one of the leading painters of the day, a most excellent man, obtained the management of a lot...

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...ped, by promoting this marriage, to leave her rich and happy, according to Florentine custom. She had concluded that her daughter, emerging from a con... ...ion can only be de- scribed by comparing him to the cherubs represented by painters as having only a head and wings, had been so im- passioned as to v... ...on are full of precious gifts; Massimilla will have none of them; she is a Florentine, and she will throw me over. I have to sit by her side like ice,... ...e spell. What a fine bed! and in the bed-place such a pretty lamp! Quite a Florentine idea!” There are some strongly blended natures on which extremes... ...of this faith in love which fired his blood, and which of old inspired the painters of Spain, which gave Italy her Madonnas, cre- ated Michael Angelo’... ...uch had plunged it into dishonor. This none knew but he, for the beautiful Florentine ascribed so many virtues to her lover that the man she adored co... ...hen we find them again in their realm of glory,—in the works of some great painters of Heaven. In the evening the lovers went to the theatre. This is ... ...umi- 30 Massimilla Doni nated, stood out against the dark background. The Florentine attracted every gaze by her broad, high brow, as white as snow, ...

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...to ascertain where the best accommodation was to be had. He pronounced the Florentine women the finest in the world, but had not an equally good opini... ...proach in their wars any means which may help them to conquer. The ancient Florentines were so far from seeking to obtain any advantage over their ene... ...o, it is said, to the other cities of Greece, to inquire out rhetoricians, painters, and musicians; but to Lacedaemon for legislators, magistrates, an...

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...course like this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed ... ...fought with angels or devils; it bears some resemblance to that the German painters give to the dead Christ; count- less signs of a constant struggle ... ...of exquis- itely carved oak, there was nothing except a strange, evidently Florentine, ivory statuette attributed to Michael Angelo, rep- resenting Pa... ...orning. A yellow salon, its effect heightened by trimmings of the color of Florentine bronze, was in harmony with the rest of these magnificences, a f... ...h the beauties 46 A Daughter of Eve of a French woman are in their glory. Painters particularly admired the lustre of her white shoulders, tinted wit...

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... for they were very roughly and comically got up; most likely by poor sign painters, who eke out their living in that way. They were all little pictur... ...uence. It is miserable to see great works of art—something of the Souls of Painters—perishing and fading away, like human forms. This cathedral is odo... ...ius on a face, which, almost in a line or touch, separated him from meaner painters and made him what he was, succeeding bunglers, filling up, or pain... ...one time, I used to please my fancy with the speculation whether these old painters, at their work, had a foreboding knowledge of the man who would on... ...ts, as works of art, to justify their compound mul tiplication by Italian Painters. It seems to me, too, that the indiscriminate and deter mined rap... ... pictures on its walls, the triumphs of the Medici and the wars of the old Florentine people. The prison is hard by, in an adjacent court yard of the... ...r, have faded out of the old Squares and public haunts, while the nameless Florentine Lady, preserved from oblivion by a Painter’s hand, yet lives on,...

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... without dig- nity; in fact, it resembled the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal th... ...ts graceful suppleness, and in the serpentine curves laboriously sought by painters and sculptors,—curves which Nature herself draws so delicately wit... ...he lower part of her face were a little heavy, in the acceptation given by painters to that term,—a heaviness which is, ac- cording to the relentless ... ...ne of those old, defaced, half ruined windows the brushes of the old Dutch painters loved so well. When some stranger, surprised or interested by the ... ...l effect of his lines, which recalled those by which the genius of Spanish painters de- lights to represent the great monastic meditators, and those s... ... faces seamed with deep-cut, rigid wrinkles, and bronzed like a 83 Balzac Florentine medal. These persons, stoically erect like statues, in their old... ...tapestry which nature makes of a forest in autumn. The oaks were a mass of Florentine bronze, the walnuts and the chestnuts displayed their blue-green...

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...pths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy. As beheld from the tower of Monte Beni, the sc... ...at glim- mered through its duskiness like the fireflies in the garden of a Florentine palace. A gleam of lightning from the rear of the tempest showed... ...s. These men, and a few Flemings, whispers the wicked demon, were the only painters. The mighty Italian masters, as you deem them, were not human, nor... ...ore profoundly. She began to suspect that some, at least, of her venerated painters, had left an inevitable hollowness in their works, because, in the... ...d become consummate. When you demand what 101 Hawthorne is deepest, these painters have not wherewithal to respond. They substituted a keen intellect... ...human idol) that the greater part was thrown away. For some of the earlier painters, however, she still retained much of her former reverence. Fra Ang...

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...ine the pale gold, ambient glory in which Raphael and Titian, alone of all painters, have been able to enwrap the Virgin. Her brown eyes expressed bot... ...aste as an artist I have made droop- ing flowers with leaves of the hue of Florentine bronze, such as are found before or after the winter. Would not ...

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...r milord.” “What, Cardot, the son of that little old man in hair-pow- der, Florentine’s first friend?” “Just so. Malaga, whose ‘fancy’ is a little tom... ...ressingly civil to the notary. “I knew monsieur your father,” said he, “at Florentine’s, so I may well know you here, at Mademoiselle T urquet’s. Like... ...le Daddy Cardot—excuse me, we always called him so. At that time, Florine, Florentine, T ullia, Coralie, and Mariette were the five fingers of your ha... ...inute under the most discreditable compulsion, and scamp- ing his work, as painters say of a picture from which sound technique is absent; but she wou...

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...o exceptions, are all alike; he has drawn them all from the same model, as painters say. They are, every one of them, descended from Clarissa Harlowe.... ...ris of the matter. “Why, I shall be delighted, quite delighted, sir. Mlle. Florentine can come to my shop and choose anything she likes. Ribbons are i... ...udently withdrawn from the case. “And I shall be obliged to do as much for Florentine!” old Cardot’s eyes seemed to say. Lucien at once began to under... ... Matifat, paling visibly. “No, fourteen,” said a voice in the doorway, and Florentine appeared. “I have come to look after ‘milord Cardot,’ “ she adde... ... Vernou, Blondet, Vignon, Philippe Bridau, Mariette, Giroudeau, Cardot and Florentine, and Bixiou. He had also asked all his friends of the Rue des Qu... ...re (with the consent of her creditors) to little old Cardot, who installed Florentine in the rooms at once. The tradition of the house remained unbrok...