 Bernini, the Florentine sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre.  The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 2561824Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." " There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which 1 cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 334 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." "There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to... | |
 | Joseph Hodges Choate - 1911 - 396 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, a little before my coming to Eome, gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." And it has been happily said of Michelangelo that he wore the four crowns of architecture, sculpture,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 498 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy and built the theatre." "There is nothing in war," said Napoleon, " which I cannot do by my own hands. If there is nobody to... | |
 | Edward Gordon Craig - 1925 - 248 pages
...time before my coming to the city, gave a public opera (for so they call shows of that kind) 1 wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre," as, of course, anyone will have to do in the future who would create a drama all of a piece. It is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth - 1990 - 404 pages
...architect, painter, & poet, a little before my coming to the city (Rome), gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the engines, composed the music, writ the comedy, & built the theatre." Evelyn's Diary 1644 Mr Chase a clerk of Waterston, Pray, & Co will with a ruler... | |
 | Giancarlo Maiorino - 1990 - 230 pages
...my coming to the City, gave a Publique Opera (for so they called those shows of that kind) wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the Engines, composed the Musique, writ the Comedy, and built the Theater all himselfe."6 His spellbinding optimism spurred on... | |
 | Richard Viladesau - 2000 - 286 pages
...quote from the diary of Bernini's contemporary |ohn Evelyn: "Bernini. ..gave a public opera wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music. writ the comedy, and built the theatre " 18. 1n his papal projects Bernini was in fact a major propagandist for the claims of the Roman church;... | |
 | James Fenton - 2000 - 337 pages
...us in an often quoted passage, "gave a public opera (for so they call shows of that kind), wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...composed the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre."1 Bernini, like Rauschenberg, was a great pusher-back of technical boundaries: in his productions... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2001 - 452 pages
...sculptor, architect, painter, and poet, a little before my coming to Rome, gave a public opera, wherein he painted the scenes, cut the statues, invented the...the music, writ the comedy, and built the theatre." 14 Sheridan on one and the same day took a leading part in the prosecution of Hastings, speaking for... | |
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