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Handbook for travellers in Italy, comprising north, central and southern, also the island of Sicily; With the necessary information respecting ... hotels, etc. Corrected up to the present time - Brossura
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...in the eighth century, renewed in 1485, and again in 1662. The columns of the nave are of Cipolline marble, coated with Sicilian jasper. Palazzo Doria.--The Doria family are justly ranked among the most ancient and the most illustrious nobility of Italy. This palace contains a splendid collection of paintings; the principal are: In the first room, called the Saloon of Poussin, are numerous Landscapes by that celebrated artist; two Sea Views, by Monpair; a Turkish Woman on Horseback, by Castiglione; and some paintings, by Rosa di Tivoli,in his best style. In the second room are a St Catherine, by Scipione Gaetano; St Dorothy, by Lanfranc; two Landscapes, by Both; a Castiglione, and St Eustachius, by Albert Durer; three Bassani, representing Christ driving the Moneychangers out of the Temple, the Flight of Jacob, and the Temptation of Christ; three other paintings, by the same artist, representing the Sacrifice of Noah after the Deluge; the Apparition of Jesus to the disciples of Emaus, and an Ecce homo; a Giorgione, a St Sebastian, by Agostino Caracci; a Tempesta, and a Landscape by Poussin. The third room contains a Holy Family, by Garofalo; the Endymion of Guercino; the Mistress of Titian, by that artist; a Deposition from the Cross, by Paul Veronese; a portrait of Macchiavelli,by Bronzino; a Vandyke and a Guercino; the Death of Abel, by Salvator Rosa; two Portraits, by Titian, one representing Jansenius. The other most remarkable pictures of this room are a Pierin del Vaga, a landscape representing the Apparition of Emaus, by Both; a Holy Family, by Pietro Perugino; aDianaandEndymion, by Rubens; Portraits by Titian and Vandyke. Some very fine portraits decorate the fourth room: after the Portrait of a Female, by Rubens, comes a large picture representing ...
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- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 113092002X
- ISBN 13 9781130920024
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine286
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