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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Spanish Painters, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprehending That Part of Their Biography
There are still beautiful Spanish standards, of this and former periods, tolerably preserved; but al though much mention is made of marine decora tions throughout the memoirs of fresco painters, who had most helped to furnish them, yet the disasters of time, wars, and weather, destroyed too many, to point out with certainty all their claims to admiration: but common history, as well as that on art, is sufficiently corroborative of the truth that Spain was distinguished for her magnificent streamers on the seas. Navarro, be sides contributing to the number of these cele brated decorations, was also much occupied in painting frescos for Convents in and near Seville some of them are little injured by time, and bespeak the dexterity of pencil and boldness of hand necessary for such painting - Seville.
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