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Art, Greek - Early works to 1800
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Three dissertations; one on the characters of Augustus, Horace and Agrippa, With a Comparison between His two Ministers Agrippa and Maecenas, by the Abbe de Vertot. To which is added, Some Reflections on the Characters of Augustus, Maecenas and Horace, and on the Works of Horace, by the Earl of Shaftsbury. With a Print from an ancient Painting, representing Augustus, Agrippa, Maecenas and Horace. Another on the gallery of Verres, by the Abbe Fraguier, in which many excellent Pieces of ancient Statuary, Sculpture and Painting are described. A third on the nature, origin and use of masks, in theatrical representations among the ancients, by Mr. Boindin. With A Print from a fine antique Bas-Relief, lately discover'd at Rome, representing ancient Actors in their Masks, with a Musician playing on the double Tibia.
Turnbull, George, 1698-1748.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Supplément aux Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit et les progres des arts de la Grece; sur leur connexion avec les arts et la religion des plus anciens peuples connus; sur les monumens antiques de l'inde, de la perse, du reste de l'asie, de l'europe et de l'egypte. Contenant des Observations nouvelles, sur L'Origine des Idees employees dans les anciens Emblemes religieux; sur les Raisons qui les firent choisir; sur les suites du Deluge universel; sur les Origines des Scythes, des Chinois & des Indiens; sur la Religion primitive de ces peuples; sur celle des anciens Perses, &c. &c.
Hancarville, Pierre d', 1719-1805.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]