A General View of the Fine Arts: Critical and Historical, with an IntroductionA.S.Barnes & Company, 1838 - 477 páginas |
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... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
... less sensual , more benevolent , more alive to the beauties of nature and truth , should be as generally cultivated as possible . The following work is intended to diffuse a taste for such studies , by gathering into a small compass ...
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... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
... less indispensable , though not less valuable , arts of architecture , sculpture , and painting . So many volumes were attributed to him , that no human being could possibly have composed them . All the successive improvements in ...
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... less importunate cravings of his inte..ectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way ...
... less importunate cravings of his inte..ectual nature called for gratification . However long , Adam and Eve may have dwelt in the garden of delights , before the fall , we can hardly suppose that they turned their attention in any way ...
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... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
... less toilsome seeking after pleasure , are not sufficient to fill the desires of the human soul . Neither , indeed , can earth , with all its stores of nature and art , give it a safe resting - place ; its goal is beyond the confines of ...
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... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
... less imbued with its peculiar charac- teristics , which are , vivacity and truth of colour , perfect distribution of light and shade , boldness of touch , and correct eye for nature . They sought out those scenes in landscape , as well ...
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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.