 | 1861 - Počet stránok 814
...in this place. . . . The Sistine Chapel is a melancholy room ; the ' Last Judgment ' is apainf ully muscular delineation of a glorious subject ; the Scala...churches, with their plaster pilasters and bad windows [here the furious artist interposes a sketch of a round-headed iron-barred window ludicrouslylike],... | |
 | 1861 - Počet stránok 830
...riot in this place. . . . The Sistine Chapel is a melancholy room; the 'Last Judgment 'is apainfully muscular delineation of a glorious subject ; the Scala...greatest failure of all. It is quite painful to walk [Dec. about. Italian architecture is a mere system of veneering marble slabs ; it is enough to make... | |
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Christian antiquities, it would be unbearable — the Sistine Chapel is a melancholy room, the Last Judgment is a painfully muscular delineation of a glorious subject, the Scala Regia a humbug, the Vatican a hideous mass, and St. Peter's is the greatest... 