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Pepys most devoted of playgoers notes occasionally of particular plays, that 'the machines are fine and the paintings very pretty. In October 1667, he records that he sat in the boxes for the first time in his life, and discovered that from that point of view 'the scenes do appear very fine indeed, and much better than in the pit, to which part of the house he ordinarily resorted.
Large pier-glasses multiply the objects around, rich divans are attached to the walls, and costly tables, some of marble, others of inlaid work, enriched with beautiful paintings, stand in the rooms, in one of which I even noticed a billiard-table. The dining-hall is quite European in its character.
The poor animal puffed and panted, Mynheer smoked, and gaped around him with the most blessed indifference. June 30th. I dedicated the morning to the Prince of Orange's cabinet of paintings and curiosities both natural and artificial. Amongst the pictures which amused me the most is a St.
The cupola, glittering with gold, mosaic, and paintings of half the wonders in the Apocalypse, never fails transporting me to the period of the Eastern empire. I think myself in Constantinople, and expect Michael Paleologus with all his train.
In his book respecting his first voyage, he says that he saw some mermaids on the coast of Menegueta, but that they were not by any means so like ladies as represented in paintings. In another place he says, that, in several voyages between Lisbon and Guinea, he had observed that a degree on the earth corresponds to 56 miles and two thirds.
Without taking any further notice of the two editors, Gotzkowsky left the summer-house rapidly and approached the listening multitude. The inspired prophet stood on a bench, and, as he unrolled his pictures, he endeavored to explain these mystical paintings to his devout gazers and listeners in equally mystical language.
The skin, of a light brown, had the golden tint of a new Florentine bronze, and the amber, warm tone which is admired in the paintings of Giorgione and Titian covered with a smoky varnish, was not very different from what must have been the complexion of the young Egyptian during her lifetime. She seemed to be asleep rather than dead.
No interesting article of virtu was to be seen. The old paintings on the walls were with two exceptions feebly executed.
They visited the Cathedral Library, whose walls are covered with those historical paintings by Pinturrichio, the little deaf Umbrian painter, in whose design Raphael is said to have given aid. But Mr. Sumner wished that the time they could give to the study of paintings be spent particularly among the works of the old Sienese masters.
There were charcoal furnaces visible, a bed, paintings, an easel, bottles, strings of onions, and a magnificent lustre of coloured glass pendants. I glanced at the paintings on the wall. "The arts! the arts!" cried Signor Polizzi, throwing up his arms again to heaven "the arts! What dignity! what consolation! Excellence, I am a painter!"
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