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The grammar of painting and engraving (1874)

Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 212

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his chin, another hasthe hips coming out of his shoulder-blades. At thepalace of Te in Mantua certain mythological figuresare represented in a manner almost grotesque. Herethe horses of the Sun threaten to fall on the specta-tor, dragging the god of poetry, who shows his proseside. There a Neptune… … NRPTUNK. BY GIUI.TO ROMANO. (Palace of Te, Mantua.) Michael Angelo, to whom it would have been butplay to draw the boldest foreshortenings, painted the i86 PAINTING. ceiling of the Sistine Chapel as he would havepainted a wall divided into compartments and Raphael did the same in the soffit of the…

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