Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...support was, as a rule, good, - much better than that given him at his last visit. Mrs. Barry's Portia was a quiet, lady-like performance, erring, if it erred at all, on the side of mildness. The characters of Bassanio and Antonio were also well sustained, and Mr. Maguinnis deserves much credit for his rendering of Launcelot Gobbo. The mounting of the play was perhaps a little better than usual, and quite outshone the venerable scenery that has done duty at the Boston Theatre as long as any one can remember, and probably a good deal longer. The performance...
...Athenaeum records a sale at London of a number of the prints that have been heliotyped: Durer's "Melancholia," pound 31; Marc Antonio's "Adam and Eve," pound 59, and his "St. Cecilia," pound 50; Rembrandt's "Three Trees," pound 123; a print from Van Dyck's "Iconographia," pound...
Among the first that will be issued are four engravings by Durer, two by Marc Antonio, and probably one by Mautegna. Three etchings will also be among the first: one portrait from Van Dyck's Iconographia, and two of Rembrandt's landscapes. These are selected with special reference to helping in art-study, by the Curator. An equal number, selected by the publisher, will be of this issue. They are mostly from Toschi's engravings after Correggio's frescos at Parma...
...word ought to be said about each of this issue, but my space will only allow me to mention Marc Antonio's exquisitely graceful Cleopatra. We have almost Raphael himself here, for Marc Antonio was thoroughly imbued with his spirit, and worked under his eye. The superiority of the heliotype over the autotype process will be very apparent, in one instance at least, if you compare Durer's Nativity of this issue with the English autotype of the same engraving...