Manual of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical: With an Introduction by D. Huntington, M.A.A. S. Barnes & Company, 1879 - 477 páginas |
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... returning home , and discovering what had been done , exclaimed that Apelles alone could have executed it . Still , however , he drew another himself , a line more perfect than that of Apelles , and left directions with his domestic ...
... returning home , and discovering what had been done , exclaimed that Apelles alone could have executed it . Still , however , he drew another himself , a line more perfect than that of Apelles , and left directions with his domestic ...
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... returned to Utrecht , where he practised his art , and employed Polembourg in painting the figures . BERCHEM . Nicolas Berchem , ( or Berghem , ) was born at Haerlem , in 1624 , and was taught the first principles of painting by his ...
... returned to Utrecht , where he practised his art , and employed Polembourg in painting the figures . BERCHEM . Nicolas Berchem , ( or Berghem , ) was born at Haerlem , in 1624 , and was taught the first principles of painting by his ...
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... returned to the continent . When Charles I. , learning what a treasure he had lost , prevailed on him to return , he eventually knighted him , and bestowed on him a pension . He painted portraits almost exclusively ; there are more than ...
... returned to the continent . When Charles I. , learning what a treasure he had lost , prevailed on him to return , he eventually knighted him , and bestowed on him a pension . He painted portraits almost exclusively ; there are more than ...
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... returned to England to try his fortune with his own countrymen ; and the commence- ment was promising . But the love of landscape painting spread very slowly - so slow , that after the sale of a few of his works among the more ...
... returned to England to try his fortune with his own countrymen ; and the commence- ment was promising . But the love of landscape painting spread very slowly - so slow , that after the sale of a few of his works among the more ...
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... returned in a few minutes and resumed his labours . Buchy called on him one day and found him at work ; he seized his visitor by the arm , hurried him to the remotest corner of the room , and said , There , look at my landscape ; this ...
... returned in a few minutes and resumed his labours . Buchy called on him one day and found him at work ; he seized his visitor by the arm , hurried him to the remotest corner of the room , and said , There , look at my landscape ; this ...
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Página 278 - Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.
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 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 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 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 437 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp ? 28 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters?
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...