General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and HistoricalPutnam, 1851 - 476 páginas |
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... appear elevated above the barbarous tribes of the north . To Italy , the present sanctuary of the arts , the eye turns with peculiar fondness , as to the trysting - place of the world ; a neutral ground , where all become fellow ...
... appear elevated above the barbarous tribes of the north . To Italy , the present sanctuary of the arts , the eye turns with peculiar fondness , as to the trysting - place of the world ; a neutral ground , where all become fellow ...
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... appears at first ; for though all agree that its purpose is to imitate nature , yet the vast superiority of many works of art over others equally challenging to be considered as true and faithful repre- sentations of nature , shows that ...
... appears at first ; for though all agree that its purpose is to imitate nature , yet the vast superiority of many works of art over others equally challenging to be considered as true and faithful repre- sentations of nature , shows that ...
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... appears to such a degree as to assure us it is impossible they should be copies . But we cannot say , on the contrary , when we see a tame , heavy handling , that it is not original merely upon that account , because there have been ...
... appears to such a degree as to assure us it is impossible they should be copies . But we cannot say , on the contrary , when we see a tame , heavy handling , that it is not original merely upon that account , because there have been ...
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... appears like a large picture , when seen through a concave lens . Mosaic , or Musaic , as it is sometimes called , is a kind of painting executed with small pieces of glass , or wood , pebbles , enamel , & c . , fixed upon any substance ...
... appears like a large picture , when seen through a concave lens . Mosaic , or Musaic , as it is sometimes called , is a kind of painting executed with small pieces of glass , or wood , pebbles , enamel , & c . , fixed upon any substance ...
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... appears to have been the first who employed various colours in his pictures . SECOND PERIOD . There seems to have been a great gap or chasm in the history of painting after the time of Bularchus , and the next allusion to the art seems ...
... appears to have been the first who employed various colours in his pictures . SECOND PERIOD . There seems to have been a great gap or chasm in the history of painting after the time of Bularchus , and the next allusion to the art seems ...
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Academy admiration alto-relievo ancient antique Apelles Apollodorus 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 Engraver entablature Etruscan excellence executed exhibited expression father feeling feet figures finished gave genius Giorgione grace grandeur Grecian Greece Greeks hand harmony head historical honour imagination imitation invention Ital Italian Italy king landscape light look Lysippus manner marble masters merit Michael Angelo mind modern nature never objects opera original ornament painter painting palace Paul Veronese pencil perfect Phidias picture poet poetry portrait 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 floating Clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 27 - A primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more...
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 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. We decay Like corpses in a charnel ; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. He has outsoared the shadow of our night.
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 79 - He first introduced large drapery, flowing in an easy and natural manner : indeed he appears to be the first who discovered the path that leads to every excellence to which the Art afterwards arrived, and may therefore be justly considered as one of the Great Fathers of modern Art.
Página 124 - Lorrain finished more minutely, as becomes a Professor in any particular branch, yet there is such an airiness and facility in the landscapes of Rubens, that a painter would as soon wish to be the author of them, as those of Claude, or any other artist whatever.
Página 79 - THOUGH I have been led on to a longer digression respecting this great Painter than I intended, yet I cannot avoid mentioning another excellence which he possessed in a very eminent degree; he was as much distinguished among his contemporaries for his diligence and industry, as he was for the natural faculties of his mind. We are told, that his whole attention was absorbed in the pursuit of his art, and that he acquired the name of Masaccio*, from his total disregard to his dress, his person, and...
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.