A General View of the Fine Arts: Critical and Historical, with an IntroductionA.S.Barnes & Company, 1838 - 477 páginas |
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... Early efforts . - Aid of Apelles . - The lines of Protogenes and Apelles . - Picture of Ialysus . - Diet of the artist . - Chance . - APELLES . - Alexander's portrait . - Unison of his powers . - Principles of art . - Details of ...
... Early efforts . - Aid of Apelles . - The lines of Protogenes and Apelles . - Picture of Ialysus . - Diet of the artist . - Chance . - APELLES . - Alexander's portrait . - Unison of his powers . - Principles of art . - Details of ...
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... Early neglect . Subjects . - Style . - Relieving lights . - Power of imitation.— Expedition.- MURILLO.- Painting banners.- Success . - Colour . - Original- ity . - RUYSDAEL . - Early success . - Subjects . - BOTH . - Landscape ...
... Early neglect . Subjects . - Style . - Relieving lights . - Power of imitation.— Expedition.- MURILLO.- Painting banners.- Success . - Colour . - Original- ity . - RUYSDAEL . - Early success . - Subjects . - BOTH . - Landscape ...
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... Early studies . - Ad- vice of Lavater . - Opinion of Reynolds . - Manner of study . - Scenes from Shakespeare . - Ghost in Hamlet . - Milton gallery . - Master of nine lan- guages . Professorship of painting . - Lectures . - Agreeable ...
... Early studies . - Ad- vice of Lavater . - Opinion of Reynolds . - Manner of study . - Scenes from Shakespeare . - Ghost in Hamlet . - Milton gallery . - Master of nine lan- guages . Professorship of painting . - Lectures . - Agreeable ...
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... Early love of the beauties of nature . - Admiration of art and artists . First portraits . - Studies from nature . - First success in New York . -Visits Europe . - Pictures painted in Florence . - Principles of the Italian masters ...
... Early love of the beauties of nature . - Admiration of art and artists . First portraits . - Studies from nature . - First success in New York . -Visits Europe . - Pictures painted in Florence . - Principles of the Italian masters ...
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... Early productions . - Seven years in Rome . - Incessant ap- plication . - Best works . - Michael and Satan . - Power of invention . - Sim- plicity . - BANKS . - Application . - Premiums . - Sent to Rome . - State of the arts when Banks ...
... Early productions . - Seven years in Rome . - Incessant ap- plication . - Best works . - Michael and Satan . - Power of invention . - Sim- plicity . - BANKS . - Application . - Premiums . - Sent to Rome . - State of the arts when Banks ...
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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 465 - Thou'dst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the mind's free The body's delicate; the tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there.
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 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 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 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 163 - In a short time a new taste and new perceptions began to dawn upon me, and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art, and that this great painter was well entitled to the high rank which he holds in the estimation of the world.
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.