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... virtues . Hence , amongst the other measures taken by Lorenzo dei Medici towards fostering the dawning arts of design , we are informed by Vasari that he established a school in his gardens exclusively appropriated for the instruction ...
... virtues . Hence , amongst the other measures taken by Lorenzo dei Medici towards fostering the dawning arts of design , we are informed by Vasari that he established a school in his gardens exclusively appropriated for the instruction ...
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... virtue of certain sigils , deter- mined by the rules of the various Lapidaria then so much studied . Thus the art slumbered on , seemingly destined never to be revived ; totally extinct in the West , confined in the East to the ...
... virtue of certain sigils , deter- mined by the rules of the various Lapidaria then so much studied . Thus the art slumbered on , seemingly destined never to be revived ; totally extinct in the West , confined in the East to the ...
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... virtues , but at length admired by the newly- opened eyes of a more cultivated generation for their true merits . To imitate them was the next step , and that not a difficult one ; the mechanical methods , themselves of the simplest ...
... virtues , but at length admired by the newly- opened eyes of a more cultivated generation for their true merits . To imitate them was the next step , and that not a difficult one ; the mechanical methods , themselves of the simplest ...
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... VIRTUES . 457 459 459 460 461 463 466 471 489 Cupid on a hippocampus : Roman Cameo . 2 SCARABEI . From the Sertina bootfhausen Collection 4 8. PAGE High - priest's breast - plate .. Persian and Sassanian seals .. Early Persian gems ...
... VIRTUES . 457 459 459 460 461 463 466 471 489 Cupid on a hippocampus : Roman Cameo . 2 SCARABEI . From the Sertina bootfhausen Collection 4 8. PAGE High - priest's breast - plate .. Persian and Sassanian seals .. Early Persian gems ...
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... virtue of acting as an antidote to the effects of wine . Hence the point of the epigram prefixed to this article , and also of another by Asclepiades or Anti- pater of Thessalonica ( Anth . ix . 752 ) : — " A Bacchante wild , on ...
... virtue of acting as an antidote to the effects of wine . Hence the point of the epigram prefixed to this article , and also of another by Asclepiades or Anti- pater of Thessalonica ( Anth . ix . 752 ) : — " A Bacchante wild , on ...
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