The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 359
int of execution. In contemplating thispicture, we may easily imagine why Carravaggio, consciousof his talents, and not sufficiently appreciating certainparts of the art, which he had not acquired, denominatedthe productions of his cotemporaries, Cartoons, In point of effect, it stands almost… … THE DEATH OF SOCRATES. AFTER A PICTURE BY DAVID. History presents us with few names of equal cele-brity with that of Socrates, the Athenian, the son ofSophroniscus. Neither the mediocrity of his fortune,the perverseness of his wife, nor the odious accusationsof Aristophanes, who, with much…
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