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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had to come to tell you that you were not a coward, but a hero, and that you saved Toddy Winthrop's life, and it's so, and Dick Marston says you don't know it and won't let him tell you and I've got to have you know it, and it's so and you have to believe it, for it's so." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hope, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You needed me --she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you? he threw at her for the third time, and his eyes flamed down into the changing face, the face which he had never known, which he seemed to have known since time began. The laughter left it then and she gazed at him with a look which he had not seen in a woman's eyes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are married, he stated miserably, and stood before her. The moments had rushed upon his strained consciousness so overladen, the joy of seeing her had been so intense, that there had been no place for another thought. He had forgotten. The thought which meant the failure of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think I'd let you--marry--a cripple, a lump of stone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think--you've got to," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, but that's where you're wrong, and she shook her finger at him triumphantly." }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What about Halarkenden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the last question in the Catechism, said Hope Stuart." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the answer is the longest. One of your letters did it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe I shall never be in a garden without expecting to see him stalk down a path, she said. She told him how she had read to him about the boy Theodore with his charm and his naughtiness and his Scotch name. How there had been no word from Robert Halarkenden when she finish...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By all that's uncanny!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, me, agreed the apparition." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I trailed you. Why --he interrupted himself--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who's 'we'?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you, the girl said, as if out of a dream, and her arm, too, was stretched and her hand pointed out the figure to her lover." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told you there never would be a garden but he would be in it. It's Robin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Robin" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cousin Robin, two things stuck out in Theodore's epistle; he's going to turn himself loose for the benefit of those working people in his factories, and he's going to have" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Cairns" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That you belong to Jack in spite of everything?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Leave or take." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah--what do you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Favorable!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look there--out there--something is moving again! Oh! holy father, exorcise them with some mighty bann. Do you not see how they are growing larger? They are twice the size of ordinary mortals." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are indeed tall, he said when he perceived them." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And now they are melting into one, and growing smaller and smaller--however, perhaps they are only men come to rob the tombs, and who happen to be particularly tall, for these figure...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you see that panting object? said one to the other as they looked after him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he were not shut up fast in his cell I could declare it was Serapion, the recluse." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense, replied the ot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chatter to other people--I am in a hurry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Klea! --and then again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Klea!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Accursed brood of vipers!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have taken my comrade's life, Roman, and a two-legged serpent has stung you for it. In a quarter of an hour it will be all over with you, as it is with that fellow there. Why does a fine gentleman like you go to keep an appointment in the desert without boots or sandals, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You poor dear father! How came you here in the desert, and into the hands of these murderers? Do you know me--your Klea? And he who is looking for your wounds--which are not visible at all--he is the Roman Publius Scipio. Now first tell us where the dagger hit you that I may bin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been even less right in such a night as this to let you proceed to one of the temples with out my escort than to have let our poor friend remain unwatched." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Once more I assure you, said Klea eagerly" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have spoken many tender words to me, and I thank you for them; but I am wont always to be honest, and less than any one could I deceive you. Whatever your love bestows upon me will always be a free gift, since you owe me nothing at all and I owe you infinitely much; for I kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I will go contentedly back to our temple till you fetch me, for I know that the discreetest, wisest, and kindest Beings will watch over our love." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will not accompany me to Apollodorus and Irene?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew all that, my child. May the gods forgive the recluse, and may Serapis show him mercy in the other world in spite of his broken oath! His destiny had to be fulfilled. You, child, were born under happier stars than he, and it is within my power to let you go unpunished. Thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "King Philometor has commanded that his brother Euergetes' birthday shall be kept to-day in Memphis. Let all the standards be hoisted, and the garlands of flowers which will presently arrive from Arsinoe be fastened up on the pylons; have the animals brought in for sacrifice, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is the way you executed your commission. It is the first time I ever trusted a woman, and this is my reward! All this will bring evil on you and on me, and when it is found out that the sanctuary of Apis has been desecrated through my fault and yours, they will inflict ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These accursed legs! he muttered, as his eyes met the enquiring glance of the young girl, and he wiped the salt dew from his cheeks with the sleeve of his coat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aye-a swelled foot like mine is painful, child, and a cripple such as I am ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a couple of hours, said the Jew," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be travelling homewards. May I offer you a place in my boat, or do you propose remaining here to assist at the festival and not starting till to-morrow morning? There are all kinds of spectacl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Himation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am the one, and I am doing the other, answered the Corinthian with a laugh, for he it was to whom the Roman's speech was addressed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How do you like my nest of young doves? It strikes me as uncommonly pretty, and how well the golden ci...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now carry up the birds and wait for the answer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This offering is to Irene, then? said Publius." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have not met for a long time; where were you all day yesterday?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will teach you to fly, my little hippopotamus! Now, show me what you have got." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is something tolerably heavy in this--what can it contain?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite inexperienced in such matters," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is something on the little tablet--the sauce no doubt to the peppered dish she has set before me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, eat it, interrupted Publius." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It may do you good for the future." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very pretty, indeed, for any one to whom they are not directly addressed. Would you like to hear the distich?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Read it to me, I beg of you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, that is the dose. But doves are not human creatures, and I know at once what my answer shall be. Give me the fibula, Publius, that clasps that cloak in which you look like one of your own messengers. I will write my answer on the wax." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When doves are courting the lover adorns himself only; But when a youth loves, he fain would adorn his beloved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am I allowed to hear it? asked Publius, and his friend at once read him the lines; then he gave the tablet to the boy, with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could not help seeing you this once! now farewell till Klea comes, then we meet again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now the heavens may fall, nothing can trouble me! Ye immortal gods, how fair the world is!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Strange boy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even the Philobasilistes have proved corrupt; my soldiers in the citadel are more numerous and are better men too than those that have remained faithful to Philometor, and there ought to be nothing more for me to do but to stir up a brief clatter of swords on shields, to spring ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, everything is admirable, just as it has always been every year for the last twenty years; but I did not come here to see but to listen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fancied, said Euergetes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "In half an hour; and ti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what news does Eulaeus bring?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you strong enough to bear to hear great news?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica is dead." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hoped so!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were right. It is not only among the race of gods that the most fearful of all are women!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What have you to say? retorted Cleopatra." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are to stay here till I return. Collect yourself, for at the next event which this momentous day will bring forth it will be my turn to laugh while your blood shall run cold." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hail: hail to the son of the Sun--Hail to the uniter of the two kingdoms; Hail to the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, to Euergetes the god." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All hail to you, sister! he exclaimed in a cheerful tone, and lifting the heavy crown from his curling hair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ought to be proud to-day, for your own brother has risen to high estate, and is now King of Upper and Lower Egypt." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The murderers have betrayed us; Publius Scipio is alive, and insists on being admitted to speak with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who dares to hinder the entrance of my friend Publius Cornelius Scipio? And are you still here, Eulaeus--you scoundrel and you villain! The first case that I, as King of Upper and Lower Egypt, shall open for trial will be that which this man--who is your foe and my friend--propo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am grieved to receive your good wishes the last of all that have been offered me on this happy day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you must have changed your mind, replied Publius, drawing up his slight figure, which was taller than the king's," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have him! he cried before he came in." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He fell from his horse near Heliopolis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Philometor? screamed Cleopatra, flinging herself upon Hierax." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He fe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will remain here till I myself conduct you to him. I wish to have you both near me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So that you may force us by every torment to resign the throne! cried Cleopatra." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are in luck to-day...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In all questions which bear upon that compact Rome alone must decide, and it is my duty to take care that the plaintiff is not prevented from appearing alive and free before his protectors. So, in the name of the Senate, King Euergetes, I require you to permit King Philometor yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank the Senate from me, and say that I know what we owe to it, and admire the wisdom which prefers to see Egypt divided rather than united in one strong hand--Philometor is free, and you also Cleopatra." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As for you sister--your tender ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are much indebted to the Senate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have forgotten your fan, and your children!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, as you have fulfilled what you deem to be your duty, I beg of you to explain the meaning of your dark speeches just now, for they were addresed to Euergetes the man, and not the king. If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You were quite right to lay your complaint before me, said Euergetes while Eulaeus cries and howls were still audible on the stairs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you see that I know how to punish those who dare to offend a guest." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I resemble Hellas and he Rome, such as they are at present. We flutter in the sunshine, and seize on all that satisfies our intellect or gratifies our senses: they gaze at the earth, but walk on with a firm step to seek power and profit. And thus they get ahead of us, and yet-- ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There can be no need for troubling Miss Vivian about it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. an' Mrs. Wegg is quite comf't'ble, sir, thank you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And yet, messire?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going my way?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yeah." }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, then. Hop in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are you headed for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dentonville." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes. That's the next town, isn't it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yeah." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have much trouble...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's where I'm holed up. Drop me off in front." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks for the lift, chum," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not at all, replied Marden." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to have been of service to Mike Eagen." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's told you his name, I see." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Born half-way between the mountains and the sea--that young George of Castelfranco--of the Brave Castle: Stout George they called him, George of Georges, so goodly a boy he was--Giorgione." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgionesque" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Portrait of an Unknown Man" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ariosto" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A Poet" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Parma, the Physician" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gipsy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notizia d'opere di disegno." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venetian Painting at the New Gallery. 1895. (Privately printed.)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Venetian Painters of the Renaissance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cicerone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Giorgione, Studio." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le Maraviglie dell' arte della pittura." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Le Vite." }, { "from": "human", "value": "La Galleria Crespi in Milano," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Varie Pitture," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barbarelli, but always of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Zorzon de Castelfrancho," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Zorzi da Castelfranco," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgione had seen certain works from the hand of Leonardo, which were painted with extraordinary softness, and thrown into powerful relief, as is said, by extreme darkness of the shadows, a manner which pleased him so much that he ever after continued to imitate it, and in oil ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and his death caused" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He enjoyed prosperity and good health, and was called Giorgione" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Giorgione signifies" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Big George." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fortunately three pictures survive which refuse to be fitted in anywhere else except under" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Giorgione." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adrastus and Hypsipyle, in the collection of Prince Giovanelli, in Venice, and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aeneas, Evander, and Pallas," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Giovanelli Figures, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Storm...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Three Philosophers, or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Chaldean Sages," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adrastus and Hypsipyle" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trial of Moses, the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Knight of Malta, also in the Uffizi, and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Christ bearing the Cross," }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Legend of S. Ursula. [21] Common to both painters is a gaiety and love of beauty and colour. There is also in both a freedom and ease, even a homeliness of conception, which distinguishes their work from the pageant pictures of Gentile Bellini, whose" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Judgment of Solomon" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ bearing the Cross," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Knight of Malta," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Knight in Armour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Adoration of the Shepherds, belonging to Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, and the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judgment of Solomon, in the possession of Mr. Ralph Bankes at Kingston Lacy, Dorsetshire. The former (of which an inferior replica with differences of landscape ex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nativity, to which of the followers of Bellini are we to assign it?--for the work is clearly of Bellinesque stamp. The name of Catena has been proposed, but is now no longer seriously supported.[25] If for no other reason, the colour scheme is sufficient to exclude this able art...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon, next to be discussed. Moreover, eccentricities of drawing are not uncommon in his work, as a reference to the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Adrastus and Hypsipyle, and later works, like the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fête Champ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Venezianische Schule um 1500 (which is correct as far as it goes),[28] it bore Giorgione's name, and is so recorded in an inventory of the year 1659. It differs from the Beaumont version chiefly in its colouring, which is silvery and of delicate tones. It lacks the rich glow, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nativities" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Judgment of Solomon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "they add," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three Ages, in the Pitti, which Morelli considered to be by Giorgione. The most obvious resemblances, however, are to be found in the Glasgow" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Adulteress before Christ, a work which several modern critics assign to Cariani, although Dr. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aeneas and Evander," } ]