The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 323
ed him insensible tothose gralifications>of luxury of which some refined mindsare but too fond. He was an Athenian in his taste, yeta Spartan in his habits of life, and united the eleganceof the one with the austerity of the other. This great master did not meet with that patronageand applause… … ASTYAGES ORDERING THE DEATHOF CYRUS. PERRIN. It is observed by critics, that few histories are soconfused as those which relate to Cyrus. The life ofthis Prince has been written by Herodotus and byXenophon, with circumstances absolutely different. Inthe picture before us the artist has taken for…
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![An illustration from VII tabulae Raphaelis Urbin [graphic] : longe celeberrimae quas hortatu P. Pauli Rubenij Eq. ingenti sumptu emptas in Angliam advehi jussit serenissimus Rex Carolus I. et quibus adservandis magnificam in Aula Hamptonensi Pinacothecam fieri imperârunt augustissimi Principes Gulielmus & Maria Rex & Regina = The seven cartons of Raphael Urbin : which King Charles the 1.st bought by advice of P. Paul Rubens and which are preserved in the Gallery at Hampton Court erected for that purpose by order of King William and Queen Mary (1722)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-viitabulaeraphae00kirk-7-8.webp)
