Title | Scraps from an artist's sketchbook |
Alternative Title | Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton |
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Publisher | Daily Chronicle |
Date | 1877 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DG427 .R68 1877 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b2395052~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_003 |
Title | Page 53 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_068.jpg |
Transcript | FLORENCE. 53 visited (the Society of Artists, of which we shall have something to say). We were most courteously received, and shown a great variety of studies made for the decoration of the walls and ceilings of the noble palaces of Genoa. These were all treated in a grand style of art; one of the subjects struck us as exceedingly fine—Galileo brought before the Inquisitors. The old man is seen leaving the chamber where cardinals and priests have been disputing with him to induce him to recant; he refuses; his expression is one of sorrow for their blindness, and he seems to say " It still goes round " as he is led to his dungeon. The artist was engaged upon a beautiful altar picture, whilst several other finished works, chiefly heads, were on easels, in different fights. We were also shown the most beautifully illuminated book backs, designed by the artist for the binding up of some precious documents belonging to one of the noble families of Genoa ; the ornamentation, colour, gilding, and design surpassed any modern work we had ever seen. |