 | John Russell - 1824 - 438 sider
...memorials of a difficult art, which was once so highly esteemed in Germany, and of the minute labour with which German artists could mould the most reluctant materials into difficult forms. One is dazzled by the quantity of gems and precious metals that glare around him; he must even admire... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 588 sider
...memorials of a difficult art, which was once so highly esteemed in Germany, and of the minute labour with which German artists could mould the most reluctant materials into difficult forms. One is dazzled by the quantity of gems and precious metals that glare around him ; he must even admire... | |
 | John Russell - 1828 - 310 sider
...memorials of a difficult art, which was once so highly esteemed in Germany, and of the minute labour with which German artists could mould the most reluctant materials into difficult forms. One is dazzled by the quan•tity of gems and precious metals that glare around him ; he must even... | |
 | John Russell - 1828 - 306 sider
...memorials of a difficult art, which was once so highly esteemed in Germany, and of the minute labourwith which German artists could mould the most reluctant materials into difficult forms. One is dazzled by the quantity of gems and precious metals that glare around him ; he must even admire... | |
 | Europe - 1850 - 458 sider
...the untiring industry which enabled the German artists to mould the roost reluctant materials into forms of variety and beauty. There is no catalogue of the contents of these vaults, and the objects to be viewed are so numerous and bewildering, that it is almost impossible... | |
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... shelves glitter with caricatured urchins, whose body is often formed of a huge pearl, or an egg-shell, the limbs being added in enamelled gold. The innumerable carvings in ivory are more interesting, as memorials of a difficult art, which was once... 