The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 256
t in the fascinating colours and wild compositionsof the great Venetian painters, might equally be incurred in an immode-rate fondness for the florid palaces of Venice and the fanciful creations ofthe Moor. * See Illustrations to Hopes Historical Essay on Architecture, and CIcognara—Fabbriche pin… … That variety of tints, of forms, of colours, and of the manner of break-ing and blending them into one another, which is seen, with one or twoexceptions, in the Venetian painters, was in itself extremely attractive;but its merit of beauty and picturesqueness was fatal to all grandeur anddignity. So…
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