A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and HistoricalG. P. Putnam, 1851 - 477 páginas |
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... character.- Discretion . - Principle of selection . - GIORGIONE . - Strong lights and strong shadows . Picture of St. Mark . - IL PORDENONE . - Resembled Giorgione . - Ri- valship . TITIAN . - Three styles . - Colouring . - Never passed ...
... character.- Discretion . - Principle of selection . - GIORGIONE . - Strong lights and strong shadows . Picture of St. Mark . - IL PORDENONE . - Resembled Giorgione . - Ri- valship . TITIAN . - Three styles . - Colouring . - Never passed ...
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... Character of busts . - Distinction in his profession . - Statue of Northcote .... PAGE 333-356 357-359 360-372 ...... 373-387 ARCHITECTURE . Three divisions . - Rank as a fine art . - Origin of styles . - Destruction of ancient cities ...
... Character of busts . - Distinction in his profession . - Statue of Northcote .... PAGE 333-356 357-359 360-372 ...... 373-387 ARCHITECTURE . Three divisions . - Rank as a fine art . - Origin of styles . - Destruction of ancient cities ...
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... character and expression , by colours vivid and truthful - who is , in a word , an artist , should be able to spread before us with the greatest charm and force , the incidents of artistic life , and the varied effects their works have ...
... character and expression , by colours vivid and truthful - who is , in a word , an artist , should be able to spread before us with the greatest charm and force , the incidents of artistic life , and the varied effects their works have ...
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... of a nation takes its rise , in a great measure , from the intellectual character of its people , may be seen by the various styles that have prevailed in different Indian . - Grecian . - Gothic . - Children OF THE FINE ARTS . 19.
... of a nation takes its rise , in a great measure , from the intellectual character of its people , may be seen by the various styles that have prevailed in different Indian . - Grecian . - Gothic . - Children OF THE FINE ARTS . 19.
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... character . The sentiment of the intellectual beautiful , while it is employed upon literary objects , must inspire a repugnance for every thing mean or ferocious . " Though the cultivation of the taste will not create moral principles ...
... character . The sentiment of the intellectual beautiful , while it is employed upon literary objects , must inspire a repugnance for every thing mean or ferocious . " Though the cultivation of the taste will not create moral principles ...
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Academy admiration alto-relievo ancient antique Apelles appears architecture artist beauty born called celebrated century character chiaroscuro church Cimabue colossal colour columns composed composition copy Coreggio delight distinguished Doric order drapery drawing effect Egyptian elegance eminent England entablature equal Etruscan excellence executed exhibited expression father feeling feet figures finished gallery gave genius Giorgione grace grandeur Grecian Greece Greeks hand harmony head historical honour imagination imitation invention Italian Italy king landscape light look Lysippus manner marble masters merit Michael Angelo mind modern nature never objects opera original ornament painter painting palace Pamphylus Paul Veronese pencil perfect Phidias picture poet poetry portrait practised Praxiteles principles produced Pythagoras Raphael Rembrandt represented Reynolds Roman Rome says scene sculpture seems Sicyon sketches spirit statues style sublime talents taste temple Terpander thing Timanthes Tintoretto tion Titian touch Venetian school West whole
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Página 25 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 307 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. 'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Página 26 - own exceeding great reward;' it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude ; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 23 - Delightful Scenes, whether in Nature, Painting, or Poetry, have a kindly Influence on the Body, as well as the Mind, and not only serve to clear and brighten the Imagination, but are able to disperse Grief and Melancholy, and to set the Animal Spirits in pleasing and agreeable Motions.
Página 25 - And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.
Página 456 - ... made ; Those are pearls that were his eyes : Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
Página 471 - The chorus in which that opera abounds gives the parterre frequent opportunities of joining in concert with the stage. This inclination of the audience to sing along with the actors, so prevails with them, that I have sometimes known the performer on the stage do no more in a celebrated song, than the clerk of a parish church, who serves only to raise the psalm, and is afterwards drowned in the music of the congregation.
Página 456 - full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
Página 154 - I have endeavoured to treat my subjects as a dramatic writer ; my picture is my stage, my men and women my players, who, by means of certain actions and gestures, are to exhibit a dumb show.
Página 170 - We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.