A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and HistoricalG. P. Putnam, 1851 - 477 páginas |
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... Figures . -BERCHEM . - Choice of nature . - Contest with Both . - GOTTFRIED MIND . -The Raphael of cats . - Attachment to living animals . - Miniature fig- ures ....... FRENCH AND GERMAN SCHOOLS . - SIMON VOUET . - Founder of French ...
... Figures . -BERCHEM . - Choice of nature . - Contest with Both . - GOTTFRIED MIND . -The Raphael of cats . - Attachment to living animals . - Miniature fig- ures ....... FRENCH AND GERMAN SCHOOLS . - SIMON VOUET . - Founder of French ...
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... Figures and landscape . - Exhibition of first picture . - Gallery of the Louvre . The great colourists . - A wide liker . - Modelling in clay . - Friend- ship of Coleridge .-- The American Titian . - First prize of British gallery ...
... Figures and landscape . - Exhibition of first picture . - Gallery of the Louvre . The great colourists . - A wide liker . - Modelling in clay . - Friend- ship of Coleridge .-- The American Titian . - First prize of British gallery ...
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... figures . - MYRON . - Athletic forms . - PYTHAGORAS . - Third period . - PRAXITELES . - Grace and beauty.— Expression . Diana.- Niobe . - Venus de Medici . - ScOPAS . - The Mauso- leum . - Carved column . - Fourth period . - LYSIPPUS ...
... figures . - MYRON . - Athletic forms . - PYTHAGORAS . - Third period . - PRAXITELES . - Grace and beauty.— Expression . Diana.- Niobe . - Venus de Medici . - ScOPAS . - The Mauso- leum . - Carved column . - Fourth period . - LYSIPPUS ...
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... figures of no specific age , sex , or destination , with no predominant quality or particular end to be answered in their construction , is to violate propriety , destroy interest , and lose the very essence of beauty in contemptible ...
... figures of no specific age , sex , or destination , with no predominant quality or particular end to be answered in their construction , is to violate propriety , destroy interest , and lose the very essence of beauty in contemptible ...
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... figures in light , airy , and trans- parent draperies , which he elegantly threw about the forms of his women . He was , in short , the author of both delicacy and expression in the paintings of Greece ; but his style is said to have ...
... figures in light , airy , and trans- parent draperies , which he elegantly threw about the forms of his women . He was , in short , the author of both delicacy and expression in the paintings of Greece ; but his style is said to have ...
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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.