Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 374
hore line, stretchingaway like the indented coves and headlands of Sor-rento, displays at intervals naked nymphs and godswho, while dangling their thick limbs in the water,watch a confused assemblage of satyrs, goats, ele-phants, and fawns; the idyls of Theocritus, thegeography of Strabo, and the… … MANTUA pleasing, something that is beautiful in this work;but it soon degenerates into the toy absurdities,the Jack-in-the-box horrors of the Fall of tlieGiants. The good Vasari admired tliem withoutstint, and Dickens, in his pictures from Italy, lentthem his own vivid fujicy, unknowing tliat it…
Art -- Italy · Cities and towns -- Italy · Italy -- Description and travel
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![An illustration from Pars I. des berühmten italiänische[n] Ritters Caesaris Ripae, allerley Künsten und Wissenschafften dienlicher Sinnbildern und Gedancken : welchen jedesmahlen eine hierzu taugliche Historia oder Gleichnis beÿgefüget (1758)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-parsidesberuhmte00ripa-102-55.webp)
