Excerpt from Lanzis History of Painting in Upper and Lower Italy, Vol. 1 of 2The original work having issued from the press toward the close of the last century, the reader will, of course, readily imagine that many of the paintings here mentioned are no longer to be met with in the places to which the work refers them. - some having been removed from the churches for which they were originally executed, in order to protect them from the efif'...
Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 3: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lansi's Storia Pittorica
Chap V. On the Origin, Progress, and Corrupt Nature of the Venetian Government 64 - 78 chap. VI.
Journey to Milan - Banks of the Brenta: Padua, The Bra della Valle, The Santo, Church of St. Justina, Hall of Justice, University: Arqua, Petrarch's Tomb, the Sonnet: Abano, Plain of Padua, Cultiva...
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Excerpt from The Classic and Connoisseur in Italy and Sicily, Vol. 3: With an Appendix, Containing an Abridged Translation of Lansi's Storia Pittorica
Chap V. On the Origin, Progress, and Corrupt Nature of the Venetian Government 64 - 78 chap. VI.
Journey to Milan - Banks of the Brenta: Padua, The Bra della Valle, The Santo, Church of St. Justina, Hall of Justice, University: Arqua, Petrarch's Tomb, the Sonnet: Abano, Plain of Padua, Cultiva...
Excerpt from Lanzis History of Painting in Upper and Lower Italy, Vol. 1 of 2
The object of the Translator, in the following Abridgment of Lanzi's History of Painting, has been to give such parts only of that work as might seem most likely to interest the English reader. Hence he has not only omitted to notice a great number of painters recorded in the original work, but has also wholly passed over three entire schools - the Ferrarese, the Ge...
