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... I could not have survived in my vineyard at San Vittore: I need artists, sculptors, apprentices, courtiers, women, princes, jousting, masques, jewel... ...ny moment. VOICES FROM THE PAST 314 We eat lunch before a handsome Gothic fireplace. A woodcutter tosses on chunks... I continue working...th...

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...79 you will get a selection of beautiful photos of the lovely piece of faux Gothic architecture that sits about three hundred yards from the office wh... ...t that painters in other countries sometimes received higher amounts, as did sculptors in our own country. In fact, he told you, all painters in our c...

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...nce of the deathbed, beside a dying fire. A 9 Balzac flickering lamp on a Gothic table sent broad uncertain shafts of light, fainter or brighter, acr... ...art. Don Juan the sceptic shut the flask again in the secret drawer in the Gothic table—he meant to run no more risks of losing the mysterious liquid.... ...ed a white marble monument on his father’s tomb, and employed the greatest sculptors of the time upon it. He did not recover perfect ease of mind till... ... in articulo mortis to my son. You will find the flask in a drawer in that Gothic table that always stands by the head of the bed …. The precious litt...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...ite repugnance to graves and skulls, and to all that ghastliness which the Gothic mind loves to associate with the idea of death. He shuddered, and lo... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ...ns, probably as fine in qual- ity, I shall steadfastly believe that future sculptors will revive this noblest of the beautiful arts, and people the wo... ... once en- joyed, but still longing to enjoy them over again.” “You bring a Gothic horror into this peaceful moonlight scene,” said Hilda. “Nay, I have... ...ts of Roman history, and Roman life itself, appear not so dis- tant as the Gothic ages which succeeded them. We stand in the Forum, or on the height o...

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...rs. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone.” A batt... ... terminating, a little beyond it, in the walk beside the river. An elegant Gothic doorway is let into the rusty- red brick-work, and strange little be... ...s of the Sacred Heart have erected a terribly modern convent here. A large Gothic doorway, in a high fragment of ancient wall, admits you to a garden-... ...thickens the shad- ows and makes dark, corners. There is a charming little Gothic chapel, with its apse hanging over the water, fas- tened to the left... ...n old town-gate, pass- ing under a mediaeval tower, which is ornamented by Gothic windows and the empty niches of statues; a mea- gre but delicate hot... ...teness in the work, and a certain robustness of taste. In nothing were the sculptors of the Renaissance more fortunate than in being in advance of us ... ...hand of Paul Dubois, one of the most interesting of that new generation of sculptors who have revived in France an art of which our overdressed centur...

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... more rounded outline, more flesh, and less of heroic muscle, than the old sculptors were wont to assign to their types of masculine beauty. The chara... ...ey thought and said. It might be under this influence—or, perhaps, because sculptors always abuse one another’s works—that Kenyon threw in a criticism... ...ite repugnance to graves and skulls, and to all that ghastliness which the Gothic mind loves to associate with the idea of death. He shuddered, and lo... ... their own art throws on mine. More valuable, too, than that of my brother sculptors, who never judge me fairly,—nor I them, perhaps.” T o gratify him... ...ose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declama- tion, “that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagia- rists in the world.” “I d... ... once en- joyed, but still longing to enjoy them over again.” “You bring a Gothic horror into this peaceful moonlight scene,” said Hilda. “Nay, I have... ...ts of Roman history, and Roman life itself, appear not so dis- tant as the Gothic ages which succeeded them. We stand in the Forum, or on the height o... ... hill with its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the ... ...kneeling before an altar. Whenever they found a cathedral, therefore, or a Gothic church, the two travellers were of one mind to enter it. In some of ...

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...at might happen to it thencefor- ward. Wielding that wonderful power which sculptors pos- sess over moist clay, however refractory it may show itself ... ... hill with its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the ... ...kneeling before an altar. Whenever they found a cathedral, therefore, or a Gothic church, the two travellers were of one mind to enter it. In some of ... ... In the shadow of the ca- 80 The Marble Faun V ol 2 thedral and other old Gothic structures—seeking shelter from the sunshine that fell across the re... ... windows, running along its front; and by way of entrance it had a central Gothic arch, elaborately wreathed around with sculptured semicircles, withi... ...uare rose the mediaeval front of the cathedral, where the imagination of a Gothic architect had long ago flowered out indestructibly, in the first pla... ...e as I can spare in studying yonder statue of Pope Julius the Third. Those sculptors of the Middle Age have fitter lessons for the professors of my ar... ...beheld, or fancied, expressed with the quaint, pow- erful simplicity which sculptors sometimes had five hundred years ago, a woman’s tenderness respon...

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...I am theirs again to morrow! Ariosto’s house, T asso’s prison, a rare old Gothic cathedral, and more churches of course, are the sights of Ferrara. B... ... Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times and coun trie... ...he highway road to Paris. Or how Strasbourg itself, in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables... ...h is a large square, with a great broken nosed fountain in it: some quaint Gothic houses: and a high square brick tower; outside the top of which—a c... ... on its market day, with radiant colours. They set off its sombre but rich Gothic buildings admirably. The pavement of its market place is strewn with... ...ere, open to all comers, in their beautiful and calm retreats, the ancient Sculptors are immortal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, R...

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... thickness of the glass, reflected a thread of light the whole length of a gothic frame in damascened steel-work. The two copper-gilt candelabra which... ...n silver- gilt,—mere show-case trumpery , in spite of the monogram E.G. in gothic letters rather well engraved, which belonged properly to something i... ...iment which purifies womanhood and gives it a distinc- tion unknown to the sculptors of antiquity. She had an enor- mous head, with the masculine yet ...

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... younger days. His brown hair was somewhat tumbled; for, while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods of arranging Minerva’s tr... ...se goods finds its depot at the former place. Docks, hospitals, wharves, a Gothic cathedral, a government house, macadamised streets, give to Hong Kon... ...curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses,...

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...the level of the roof. The descendant of the Franks looked for the missing Gothic turrets and the picturesque weather vanes which used to rise above t... ...e, straight, slim and slender, ivory-tinted statues, which those wonderful sculptors, the builders of cathedrals, placed here and there about the buil...

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... sleeping eternally, with his hand on his sword, like an old crusader in a Gothic cathedral. Rowland made no haste to pronounce; too much de- pended o... ...alian artists of the sixteenth century who were indifferently painters and sculptors, sonneteers and engravers. At times when he saw how the young scu... ... youth,” he said. “But you can’t keep it up—you can’t keep it up!” The two sculptors pursued their discussion after din- ner, in the drawing-room. Row... ... doing a very foolish thing. That ‘s an exploit for spiders, not for young sculptors of promise.” Roderick wiped his forehead, looked back at the wall...

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...rs, inlaid with arabesques of ivory and bought in Venice, with other noble Gothic furniture. Here too are pictures and articles of choice workmanship ... ...ng. 72 Balzac Instead of entering the room, the young man sat down upon a Gothic seat covered with green velvet, which stood on the landing beneath a... ...by the window and watch the road to the marshes.” Calyste arranged a great Gothic chair for her near the win- dow, and opened one of the sashes. Camil... ...ell, she’s a charming girl,” said Beatrix, placing herself gracefully in a Gothic chair. “She will just do for you, Mon- sieur du Guenic.” “The marria... ...d no longer a hidden grief; and secret sor- row is like that iron rod that sculptors put within the struc- ture of their clay,—it supports, it is a fo...

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...ay, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally, mingle together in the easies... ...t the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the nig... ...l with shame and horror now became uppermost again. Before her was a great Gothic 183 H. G . Wells portal. Through that she had to go. Past her shot ...

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...d have made it a point of duty, moreover, to sit endlessly to painters and sculptors, and preferably to the lat ter; because the cold decorum of the ... ...rites 186 The Blithedale Romance which were moulded originally out of the Gothic gloom, and by long use, like an old velvet pall, have so much more t...

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...ed the figures of Flora and Zephyr as we see them grouped by the cleverest sculptors; but they were be- yond sculpture, the greatest of the arts; Luci... ...ht dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are conspicu... ...or air, have been hewn out of that beautiful structure in which Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in o... ...which the Hall of Saint-Louis forms the first floor—displays a long row of Gothic columns, between which the architects of I know not what period have... ... destroyed, was rebuilt in the Rue de Bourgogne, pending the building of a Gothic church to be dedicated to Sainte-Clotilde. On hearing the first word...

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... landing and the well of the staircase was painted in old oak to represent Gothic ornament. The bedrooms, hung with chintz, were charming in their cos... ...s in displacing or smoothing stones which are the wonder of architects and sculptors. It was eight o’clock. At that season twilight was still shed- di...

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...t. The clever fellows, the friendly countrymen were mainly young painters, sculptors, architects, medical stu- dents; but they were, Chad sagely opine... ...gold alone. He looked, doubtless, while he played his eternal nippers over Gothic glooms, sufficiently rapt in rever- ence; but what his thought had f...

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...d softness, by the touts of marble- workers, iron-founders, and monumental sculptors. “If monsieur would like to order something, we would do it on th... ... sides the emblems of professions, and every style of art,—Moorish, Greek, Gothic,—friezes, ovules, paintings, vases, guardian-angels, temples, togeth... ...hat is all. Why? is known to none. Such figure are a type of those used by sculptors for the four Seasons, for Commerce, for Plenty, etc. Some others—...

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...rs’ sakes, of the age of Christian chivalry and faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, of the Periclean age. These Holy Lands are my fatherlands... ...ttain- able: his compositions were wonderful webs of exquisitely beautiful Gothic traceries in sound, quite beyond all ordi- nary human talent. Beetho... ...popular and practicable: not to save his soul could he have drawn one long Gothic line in sound as Bach could, much less have woven several of them to...

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...them all with satisfaction, and they live again to the mind, or are now. A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us. Surely ... ...Colossi could sit as watchmen or lean on the pillars of the interior?” The Gothic church plainly originated in a rude adapta- tion of the forest trees... ...will see as readily the origin of the stained glass window, with which the Gothic cathe- drals are adorned, in the colors of the western sky seen thro... ...ns, its spikes of flowers, its locust, elm, oak, pine, fir and spruce. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand ... ...e and the conditions to be observed. And why need we copy the Doric or the Gothic model? Beauty, convenience, gran- deur of thought and quaint express... ...n what are these millions who read and behold, but incipi- ent writers and sculptors? Add a little more of that qual- ity which now reads and sees, an...

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...er fine furniture, or delicate cook ery, or a house in the Grecian or the Gothic style just yet. If there are any to whom it is no interruption to ac... ...purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bon...

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...furniture, or delicate cookery, or a house in the Grecian Economy 43 or the Gothic style just yet. If there are any to whom it is no interruption to ... ...e purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bo...

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....—’See,’ says he, ‘it is the kind of Pompa- dour that looks like decorated Gothic.’—’Yes,’ I told him, ‘the box is pretty; the box might suit me; but ... ...e poor man had sifted the events of his past life. It has been the wont of sculptors, ancient and modern, to set a tutelary genius with a lighted torc...