"Italian renaissance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow who under a new name is welcomed joyfully every Christmastide. In another sense, too, "Der Freischtz" is a national opera; the spirit of its music is drawn from the art-form which the people created. Instead of resting on the highly artificial product of the Italian renaissance, it rests upon popular song—folk-song, the song of the folk. Its melodies echo the cadences of the Volkslieder in which the German heart voices its dearest loves. Instead of shining with the light of the Florentine courts it glows with the rays of the setting sun filtered ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel
... he understood Latin, and Caesar told him no, and then, in a strange gibberish, half Latin and half Italian, he let loose a series of facts, dates, and numbers. Then he asserted that all artistic things of great merit were German: Greece. Rome, Gothic architecture, the Italian Renaissance, Leonardo da ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja
... didn't have a chance to speak a word to you alone. You looked charming in that scarlet dress. Your head is shaped so prettily that I think you are wise to cut your hair. It makes you look like a page of the Italian Renaissance." ...
— One Man in His Time • Ellen Glasgow
... quality in architecture, be the style what it may. To this end the founders of the school believe it to be of the utmost importance for an architect, before he begins his professional career, to study thoroughly and on the spot the monuments of ancient architecture and such works of the Italian Renaissance as are worthy of being considered their successors. The monuments best suited to this purpose are those of Greece and Italy, and the headquarters of the school are established at Rome rather than at Athens, because of the greater amount of material ...
— The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 05, May 1895 - Two Florentine Pavements • Various
... Bound in cloth, 5s. net per vol. EDITION DE LUXE, small 4to. printed on pure rag paper, with additional Plates, parchment, 10s. 6d. net per vol. Stories of the Italian Artists from Vasari. Collected and arranged by E. L. SEELEY. Artists of the Italian Renaissance: their Stories as set forth by Vasari, Rinolfi, Lanzi, and the Chroniclers. Collected and arranged by E. L. SEELEY. Stories of the Flemish and Dutch Artists, from the time of the Van Eycks to the End of the Seventeenth Century, drawn from Contemporary Records. Collected and arranged by ...
— A History of the United States • Cecil Chesterton
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